"This timely book critically evaluates the life, work and milieu of the Tunisian poet, Abu al-Qasim al-Shabb? (1909-1934), providing translations and detailed commentaries around his seminal work "al-Khayal al-Shri 'inda al-'Arab" ("Arabic Poetic Imagination). This volume will be of pivotal interest for scholars, students and academics of Modern and Classical Arabic Literature, as well as those with an interest in these topic areas more generally"--