Hafiz Ibrahim (1871-1932)
Egyptian-Turkish Army officer (1891) - Sudan (as exile) - court martialled (1900) Best -known neoclassicist after Shauqi Related to the common people (people's poet) Al-Ahram newspaper Muhammad Abduh - intellectual and political leading figures Political/revolutionary poetry Panegyric, elegy (cold, imitative), description, love and wine
Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi 1863-1936
Kurdish origin Traditional religious education Masterd Turkish and Persian Father of modern Iraqi poetry - not a pre-romantic Reacted strongly against artificiality, mental sterility, and imitation Description of the nature People suffering Philosophical and metphysical Al-shi'r al-mursal
Ma'ruf al-Rasafi 1875-1945
Humble origin Koranic school - military - religious Held post in education, politics and journalism Social and political poetry Accused of heresy Simplified the language of Iraqi poetry