A Study on Ahmed Shayeb's Critical Views in Poetry

Ancient and modern critics of Arabic poetries have had special attention to poetry and offered kinds of concept which are different from critic to critic. Amongst the contemporary critics, Ahmed Shayeb had had new point of view and posed various works. Thus the present paper tries to study his critical views of his book titled "Principles of literary criticism" by descriptive – analytical method.
He believes that there should exist order among the words and phrases. In his view point lexicon is applied as a means of expressing the meaning and there is cohesion between them in a poetry. Emotion is the most important element of the poetry in his view point.