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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... poet's namesake , who built the Temple and composed the most beautiful and wisest of biblical books , Ibn Gabirol ... poet Abu ' l - ' Ala al - Maʻarri ( 974– 1058 ) , known for the dense patterning of his caustic poems , like Ibn Ga ...
... poet sings , ” wrote Jacob Glatstein in a Yiddish poem some nine hundred years later , " the Jewish coffin - birds ... poet's work , the material had to be pieced together from manuscripts held in libraries in Oxford , Parma , Vienna ...
... poet's name turned up missing as well .... In 1846 the French scholar Solomon Munk discovered among the He- brew manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris excerpts of a philosophical work by Ibn Gabirol that had been translated ...
... poet Solomon Ibn Ga- birol, his name having undergone the Latinizing mutation that turned Ibn Sinna into Avicenna and Ibn Rushd into Averroes. Written in the universalist spirit of the times, and, scholars speculate, very late in the poet's ...
... poet is in the middle of a longish poem called " Judah Ben Halevy , " which would become part of " Hebrew Melodies ... poet's troubadourlike love songs for Jerusalem and his legendary death there at the hands of a Saracen on horseback ...
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 |