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Abdel Rahman Shokry (; 12 October 1886 – 16 December 1958) was an Egyptian
poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
from the Diwan school of poets.


Early life

He was born in
Port Said Port Said ( , , ) is a port city that lies in the northeast Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, straddling the west bank of the northern mouth of the Suez Canal. The city is the capital city, capital of the Port S ...
and he travelled to
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where he got his
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from the
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.


Career

He believed that poetry must be renewed and freed from the one-rhyme system in
Arabic poetry Arabic poetry ( ''ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy'') is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk of the oldest poetic material in Arabic, but Old Arabic inscriptions reveal the art of poetry existe ...
. There were seven poetry books for him, including "Light of The Dawn" in 1909 and "Flower of The Spring" in 1916. He abandoned poetry after a dispute with his two colleagues in this school, Ibrahim Al-Mazini and Abbas el-Akkad, until his death.


External links (Arabic)

* https://web.archive.org/web/20060823130335/http://www.albabtainpoeticprize.org/poetDetails.aspx?ptId=361


References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20060721071401/http://www.albabtainpoeticprize.org/. 1886 births 1958 deaths Egyptian male poets People from Port Said 20th-century Egyptian poets 20th-century Egyptian male writers Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom Alumni of the University of Sheffield {{Egypt-poet-stub