Dec 29, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Adonis
Adonis
, pen-name of
Ali
Ahmad
Sa`id
(
1930
–
),
poet and scholar, born in Syria, and educated at Damascus University; in
1956
he settled in Lebanon, where in
1968
he founded the influential magazine Mawaqif. Many of his poems, which explore classical themes as well as the tragedy of Beirut in the 1980s, have been translated into English, and he has himself translated into Arabic works by
Racine
and
Saint-John
Perse
.
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