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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... eyes in disbelief: Is this the cultural setting that produced the Jewish courtier/poet/Talmudist/prime minister/general Shmuel Ha- Nagid? Where in this scenario is there room for the vigor, wisdom, sub- limity, irony, sensuality, and ...
... eyes wide open Like the cows along a hillside . ( trans . Hal Draper ) The poem continues with Heine telling her to go learn Hebrew - a lan- guage he himself barely knew . I , IDEAL The hyperextension of the particular , the " I , " at ...
... eyes. This, however, it cannot do, on ac- count of the weight of the body. But when the soul separates itself from ... eye. The prosody of the poem is worth pausing over, as it has important implications for understanding and translation ...
... eye , little by little , to a sense of con- quest of the whole surrounding land . By contrast , the Muslim garden's first and foremost idea is to be en- closed and isolated from the outside world ; instead of having its focus of ...
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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 |