A Study of the Influence of Foreign Literatures on the Diwan School

The Diwan School is one of the literary schools that emerged in contemporary Arabic literature and had a tremendous role in directing Arabic literature toward innovation, keeping it in touch with modern literary evolution worldwide in the twentieth century. However, the innovation that this school spread is by large of non-Arabic roots and is chiefly based on such foreign literatures as English, French and Persian. This article attempts to investigate the influence received by this school from foreign literatures, mainly through English literature.