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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... COURT I'm Prince to the Poem 45 My Words Are Driven 46 Forget About " If " and " Maybe " 47 The Rose Prologue to the Book of Grammar My Condition Worsened All My Desire The Apple : I See the Sun They Asked Me As Though They Were ...
... court intrigue and is killed, and Ibn Gabirol loses his patron. He leaves Saragossa sometime after 1045, when his mother dies, and most scholars assume that he goes south, to Granada, in order to try his luck at the court of HaNagid ...
... court - centered verse , remarkably self - deprecating piyyutim , or liturgical poems , for the weekday , Sabbath , and festival services . Apart from his diwan and his philosophical masterwork , The Fountain of Life , he produces a ...
... court , and the laver . Even the priestly vestments . His name means “ in the shadow of God , the son of my light ( or ' fire ' ) , " and Exodus 31 : 2 says that he was " filled ... with the spirit of God , in wisdom , in understanding ...
... court- poet named Menahem Ibn Saruq, fell out of favor with the principal Jewish patron of the day, Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, and was thrown into prison. The new spirit of rationalism and innovation took hold in Hasdai's court, which, in turn ...
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 |