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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... verse what looks like a mirror is meant in fact to be passed through: transparency marks a divide. Hebrew is Arabic, Muslim Jewish, his resistance a form of embrace. ABU AYYUB SULAIMAN IBN YAHYA IBN JABIRUL The reconstructed facts are ...
... verse , often gnarled with ambition and anger , and it is probable that later in life he is supported by his writing for the syna- gogue , composing radical and , in comparison with his court - centered verse , remarkably self ...
... verse , initially from Saragossa , singing the vizier's praises , and setting the stage for their somewhat mysterious confrontation and falling out several years later in Granada ; hovering in the background is the ongoing influence of ...
... verse , above all adding a personal , graceful and often comic di- mension to its rhetoric ; and , finally , Ibn Gabirol was surrounded and no doubt influenced by a contemporary Saragossan Who's Who of Jewish intellectuals that in ...
... verse . In that nineteenth - century term , a par- allel to the German for “ mosaic style , " we have a classic case of distortion in East - West transmission , a failure of sympathy . For the term itself , shibbutz , implies an effect ...
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 |