Critical readings For poetry in ancient literary criticism

The stages of the beginning of literary criticism have varied since ancient times, and the Souk Okaz in the pre-Islamic era had a great impact, and it is one of the environments of literary criticism where poets meet every year.

As a result, critical Arabic criticism makes generalizations about poets’ poems, without explaining or justifying the defect. There is hostility between poets, linguists, grammarians, and critics, to the point that they set requirements for the poets’ column that they do not deviate from.

Arabic poetry has received mature critical, intellectual, and aesthetic studies, and the studies and opinions still contain ambiguous methods in their semantic levels that deserve adventure and the pleasure of interpretation, which prompted me to study (Critical Readings on Poetry in Ancient Literary Criticism), From it, critical opinions with critical dimensions were formed in the ancient Arab heritage, as most ancient sources are almost never without mentioning or referring to it.

The study included an introduction and two sections. In the introduction,

I explained some definitions related to critical readings in general. I made the first section to study the critical opinions of ancient poets, and I dedicated the second section to the critical opinions of the pillar of poetry, then a conclusion in which I explained the most important results that I reached.