The Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the Basrah and Arab Gulf Studies Center at University of Basrah organized a panel discussion on the features of the influence of English romantic poetry on the beginnings of Al-Sayyab's poetry
The panel discussion, in which the instructor, Hashem Hameed Hamoudi, lectured, aimed to show the influence of reading and translating selections from English poetry on the early stages of the development of Al-Sayyab's poetic experience
The panel discussion presented selected examples of the famous English romantic poets of whom Al-Sayyab included some images in his poetry, such as the English poets (TS Eliot), (John Keats) and the English poet (Edith Sitwell) and compared them to his poetry
