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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... Hebrew medievals, the most foreign to a modernist approach. In his verse what looks like a mirror is meant in fact to be passed through: transparency marks a divide. Hebrew is Arabic, Muslim Jewish, his resistance a form of embrace. ABU ...
... Hebrew literary criticism , The Book of Discussion and Remembrance , for his philosophical temperament , and for his " angry spirit which held sway over reason , and his demon within which he could not control . " He writes secular ...
... Hebrew side of the ledger , one counts among Ibn Gabirol's predecessors and peers the aforementioned Shmuel Ben ... Hebrew and the first Hebrew- Arabic lexicon, and author of The Book of Beliefs and 6 AN ANDALUSIAN ALPHABET.
... Hebrew in the middle of the tenth century and set off a debate that split the Jewish intellectual community: Dunash was accused of desecrating the holy tongue with his importation of an alien poetic, and his work was attacked. Things ...
... Hebrew poet of the period , Yitzhak Ibn Khalfon , who was born in North Africa and raised in Córdoba in the latter third of the tenth cen- tury . Ibn Khalfon eventually set out as an itinerant poet , writing eulogies and other poems for ...
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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 |