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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... wisdom ends in anger: what was anger gives way to a grace. He is a poet of poles and swells and reversals, of splits that propose a completion. He is the most modern of the Hebrew medievals, the most foreign to a modernist approach. In ...
... wisdom , in understanding , and in knowledge , in all manner of workmanship ... of the craftsman , and of the skilful workman , and of the weaver in colors . " Like the Bezalel of Scripture and midrash , and like King Solomon his ...
... wisdom, sub- limity, irony, sensuality, and range of emotion and thought in his work? Or for the high stakes and backstabbing intrigue that have character- ized court cultures in medieval China, Arabia, and Elizabethan England, and that ...
... wisdom . He , like Job , is inclined to flip Scripture on its head for ironic effect as his speech mounts to a cosmic perspective . Both that most sophisticated of biblical books and his poems are coiled by swift transformations of mood ...
... wisdom and prevailed ; / He's soul encircling physique , / and a sphere in which all is held " summons " Good Friday , 1613. Riding Westward , " by the MP turned deacon and priest : " Let man's soul be a sphere , and then , in this ...
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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 |