Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn GabirolPrinceton University Press, 30.06.2016 - 344 Seiten Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor Shmuel HaNagid, the first important poet of the period, Ibn Gabirol was a reclusive, mystically inclined figure whose modern-sounding medieval poems range from sublime descriptions of the heavenly spheres to poisonous jabs at court life and its pretenders. His verse, which demonstrates complete mastery of the classicizing avant-garde poetics of the day, grafted an Arabic aesthetic onto a biblical vocabulary and Jewish setting, taking Hebrew poetry to a level of metaphysical sophistication and devotional power it has not achieved since. |
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... English. Selections] Selected poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol / translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole. p. cm. — (The Lockert library of poetry in translation) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-691-07031-8 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0 ...
... English , from cult to court and on to the swamp of pretension and the dismissal of " arts and crafts . " At the outset , he notes , ornament was " that which makes a thing itself " ; and ornamentum in Ecclesiastical law didn't convey ...
... English at least seven times over the past two hundred years , first in 1794 by David Levi , a London hatter with rabbinical training . Versions of the poem exist in German , French , Italian , Dutch , Yiddish , Latin , Persian , and ...
... English almost always turn for guidance to either the English Metaphysical poets or the neoclassical school of Pope, and with good reason. There are obvious parallels to both. Like the He- brew Andalusian poets, the poets labeled ...
... English Renaissance in general ( and it is always in general that the comparison is made ) , produced a body of work that is often ornamental , conventional , and centered on a situation of court , church , or garden . Their poems , too ...
Inhalt
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FROM THE DIWAN OF SOLOMON IBN GABIROL | 39 |
PERSONAL POEMS AND POEMS OF COURT | 43 |
POEMS OF DEVOTION | 109 |
KINGDOMS CROWN | 137 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 317 |