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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... sphere , teaching me by its light and direction— though as my heart went out to that light , I feared extended misfortune . And we have already seen what Solomon the Small does with Solomon of Scripture possessor of creation's secrets ...
... spheres and the planets , and contains a good many astro- nomical , and some astrological , considerations , which , in combination with the poet's philosophical tendencies , ruffled the feathers of the local , and formidable ...
... spheres and the swiftness of their movement, his soul longs to ascend to those spheres and to see them with his very own eyes. This, however, it cannot do, on ac- count of the weight of the body. But when the soul separates itself from ...
... spheres . LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION The finest Hebrew poetry of the period is the product of an age of trans- lation . But translation , particularly in an age of translation , is not only what hired or inspired workers have ...
... spheres / Like a vast shadow moved . . . ” seems a none - too - distant if more mild - mannered descendant of the ... sphere , and then , in this , / The intelligence that moves , devotion is . " The much celebrated metaphysical ...
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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 |