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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... 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 Your Love 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 K N N N N A 75 76 77 78 All in Red Shards The Apple : III 79 80 CONTENTS CONTENTS.
... Soul The Pen What's With You God - Fearing Men Your Soul Strains and You Sigh Don't Look Back If This Life's Joy When You Find Yourself Angry I Am the Man And Don't Be Astonished The Tree If You'd Live Among Men Why Are You Frightened A ...
... " the successful completion of an act , of an object , or even of a state of mind or soul . ” He notes the daemonic , intermediary nature of ornament , and its extraordinary capacity as part 12 AN ANDALUSIAN ALPHABET.
... soul ” ( Job 3:20 ) . Ibn Gabirol : It was night and the sky was clear , and the moon was pure at its center as it led me along discernment's sphere , teaching me by its light and direction— though as my heart went out to that light , I ...
... attained often at the expense of the Law and faith , and with endless weariness to the soul . It brings no pleasure . " And Ibn Ezra writes in his book of poetics that, generally speaking, the intrusion 21 AN ANDALUSIAN ALPHABET.
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 |