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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... creation of all things by the Creator, that is, the emanation of form from the first source, which is to say, the will, and its overflowing across matter resembles the upwelling of water flowing from a fountain and de- scending ...
Solomon Ibn Gabirol. One can compare creation to a word, which man utters with his mouth. In man's expression of the word, its form and meaning are registered upon the hearing of the listener and in his mind. Along the same lines it is ...
... creation, or re-creation—what T. S. Eliot meant when he said that poetry is “serious amusement,” implying an extra-utile and gratuitous act, which also happens to be the Welsh modernist poet David Jones's definition of art, or at least ...
... creation's secrets and an ongoing echo in the poems . JERK That said : The stench of his boasting and sense of self - worth , his trucu- lence and misanthropy , his inability to sustain friendships or stay in one place for any length of ...
... creation of the upper and lower world , for this is something whose truth cannot be determined , and whose end is attained often at the expense of the Law and faith , and with endless weariness to the soul . It brings no pleasure ...
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 |