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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... Garden Winter with Its Ink 49 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 61 62 63 66 The Garden The Field The Bee Isn't the Sky The Lily Now the Thrushes The Apple : II The Lightning The Lip of the Cup I'd Give Up My Soul Itself Tell the Boy Be Smart with ...
... garden . Their poems , too , are characterized by a fascination with arti- fice and creation , with transcendentalism and the obscurity that can en- tail . They , as well , share a worldview marked by imports and correspon- dence , by ...
... garden , both of which emerge within a neo- classical cultural frame : In our classical garden , which began with the Roman Empire and con- tinued with the Medicis and Louis XIV , the intent is to control the world from a central point ...
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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 |