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William Alexander Clouston (1843–96) was a Scottish folklorist and journalist, known for his interest in Oriental folklore and fiction and for his three volumes of Variants and Analogues of some of the Tales in the Supplemental Nights, a work composed with reference to Richard Francis Burton’s Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Arabian Poetry for English Readers is an anthology, edited and introduced by Clouston, of Arabic poetry spanning about 700 years, from the sixth century to the 13th. The anthology, mostly ...