Jawdat Haydar's Poetic Legacy Issues of Modernity, Belonging, Language, and Transcendence

Author/creator Kozah, Mario Author
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Publication InfoNewcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Description150 p.
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Summary Annotation Jawdat R. Haydar (1905-2006) was a prominent Lebanese poet from Baalbek, who contributed to world literature in the English language, and was the author of several books of poetry, including 'Voices' (1980), 'Echoes' (1989), and 'Shadows' (1998). In 2006, he published his last book of poems, '101 Selected Poems', at the age of 101. Haydar was the recipient of several awards, including the Lebanese Order of the Cedars, the Gold Medal of Lebanese Merit, the Croix de Grand Officier of France, and a papal medal from Pope John XXIII for his humanitarian work. This edited volume of the proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference held at the Lebanese American University on April 24 2013 comprises scholarly papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet.
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