1. Hafiz Ibrahim
( )

2. 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

3. Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi

4. 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

5. Ma'ruf al-Rasafi

6. 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