The Poetry of the Arabs of Spain

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Excerpt from The Poetry of the Arabs of Spain: Being the Substance of a Lecture Read in the Small Chapel of the University of the City of New York, on the Evening of March 28th, 1867 The civilization of the Moslems of Spain has for the last quarter of a century been one of the most attractive themes of learned inquiry, and Science, History, Literature and Art have each been eager after new Results some of which Romance among us has sought to invest with the nimbus of its charms. Of late years their political history and that of their polite literature have more especially been favored with valuable contributions, partly in the shape of translations, partly in original Works, from the pens of savans like Gayangos, de Slane, Dozy, Hammer-Purgstall, von Schack and others, and we have now an abundance of new light on matters hereto fore known to but few or in the dim outlines of vague uncertainty. Leaving entirely aside the question of political history, except so far as it is interwoven with that of letters, I have endeavored, in the following pages, to give a brief survey of the immense field of the poetry of the Arabs of Spain, - a theme long familiar to us as one of fascinating romance, but known to us rather in generalities than in living specimens sufficient to give us a more or less adequate conception of its real character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.