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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 earliest poetical tentatives of the Arabs were improvia sations, short epigrammatic pieces produced by the inspiration of the moment, and this appears to have been the only way in which the poetic talent of the nation displayed itself till toward the commencement of the sixth century of our era, near which time the art of writing was also introduced among them. 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.
