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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... Heart Thinks As the Sun Comes Up The Palace 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 ...
... Heart's Hollow I Love You 84 85 88 89 90 91 94 95 96 97 99 100 104 105 106 107 108 POEMS OF DEVOTION Before My Being Three Things I Look for You Forget Your Grief III 112 113 114 The Hour of Song 117 Two Things Meet in Me 118 Small in ...
... heart of another age of embellishment. “Thus ornament is but the gilded shore to a most dangerous sea . . . the seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.” Also prominent in the anti- ornament camp is Adolf Loos's ...
... heart of the matter . The art historian A. K. Coomaraswamy traces the development of the word in Sanskrit , Greek , and English , from cult to court and on to the swamp of pretension and the dismissal of " arts and crafts . " At the ...
... heart of which lay the artist's perennial question of leisure , of freedom from the business of earn- ing a living , and freedom for a " relaxation " of mind into a critical , nour- ishing entanglement of words and the world . It ...
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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 |