This study deals with the most radical of the bad ("novel") poets of the Abb sid period, Ab Tamm m. After a critique of classical bad theory it proposes a redefinition of the new poetry as an exegetical metapoesis and on that basis provides analyses, accompanied by original translations, of five of Ab Tamm m's most celebrated political odes and of extensive selections from his renowned anthology, the am sah .
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This study deals with the most radical of the bad ("novel") poets of the Abb sid period, Ab Tamm m. After a critique of classical bad theory it proposes a redefinition of the new poetry as an exegetical metapoesis and on that basis provides analyses, accompanied by original translations, of five of Ab Tamm m's most celebrated political odes and of extensive selections from his renowned anthology, the am sah .
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