Excerpt from The Journal of Sacred Literature, Vol. 5 As might be expected from the age to which it belongs, the language of Antar is uncommonly pure - equally remote from the harshness of earlier and the conceits of later authors. The style of the work as a composition is very plain and easy in con struction, but abounding in an endless variety of diction, couched in the most choice and appropriate terms. The sentences are short, and much in the style of the Bible. Even the prose is in rhythm throughout, continuing uninterrupted but by a change of termination, according to the powers of the author, or to the re dundancy of expressions with the same sound. Thus with short rhythmical periods of various lengths, the author proceeds for five or six lines to the end of his sub ect, and then commences other matter with a difl'erent rhyme.' he stry put into the mouth of the hero and other personages, has t e charm of a more elevated style; and the wider range for the imagination has been eagerly seized by the poet. Infinite] more difficult in its construction, it is still natural, and devoid 0 those conceits and absurdities that abound in most Asiatic compositions. It comprises every variety to which poetry is applied. The heroic, the complimentary, the laudatory, the amatory, the ludicrous, the 'ovia], the elegiac, are all combined in the same profusion - even the pastoral, so rare in oriental poetry, is not altogether wanting. 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.