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Unable to bear his failure, he left the institution and studied for some time in a private school till he enlisted himself as a pupil of the then celebrated savant Mahmud al-Shukri al-' Alusi2 under whom he studied Arabic literature and Islamic sciences for about twelve years.
1 Though "Turkish despotism prevented Ru~afI from giving a free play to his poetic talent in 'Iraq, being a Turkish dependency, he soon earned a name for himself in the Arabic-speaking world by having his poems published in the various Egyptian periodicals and journals especially in the .
" Ma'ruf's poems have been classified into, (i) tragic, (ii) social, and (iii) narrative and in all these Al-Rusaf] has had considerable influence on the contemporary Arab poets.
(View the image of this page) " She (the sun) is setting in the west pulling her skirts and looks pale like an emaciated lover.
" Having shown the characteristics of· Rusafl's poems, it is only appropriate here to make a comparative study of Rusaft and Shawqi, the two greatest modern Arabic poets, one from 'Iraq and the other from Egypt so that we can correctly appreciate their respective works.
,. JI J;~ I (The Awakening of the Slumberers)-poems that are likely to appear in Professor Arberry' s new anthology of the contemporary Arab poets.
1 Unlike other modern poets of 'Iraq the poems of Ma'ruf al-Rusafi have won universal.