Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol (eBook)

Solomon Ibn Gabirol (Autor)

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2016
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400884124 (ISBN)

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Peter Cole has published two volumes of poems and six volumes of translation from medieval and contemporary Hebrew and Arabic. He has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the NEA and the NEH, and for his Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid the MLA-Scaglione Prize for Translation. He lives in Jerusalem.

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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. Peter Cole's selection includes poems from nearly all of Ibn Gabirol's secular and liturgical lyric genres, as well as a complete translation of the poet's long masterwork, "e;Kingdom's Crown."e; Cole's rich, inventive introduction places the poetry in historical context and charts its influence through the centuries. Extensive annotations accompany the poems. This companion volume to Peter Cole's critically acclaimed Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid presents the first comprehensive selection of Ibn Gabirol's verse to be published in English and brings to life an astonishing body of poetry by one of the greatest Jewish writers of all time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Übersetzer: Peter Cole
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abraham Ibn Ezra • Abu Nuwas • Al-Falaq • Al-Mutanabbi • Arabic Poetry • Avodah Zarah • Bahir • Bahya ibn Paquda • book of Deuteronomy • Book of Judges • Book of Lamentations • Book of Leviticus • Book of Wisdom • Books of Chronicles • Books of Kings • books of Samuel • Calligraphy • colloquies • Constantine P. Cavafy • Deuteronomy Rabbah • Dominicus Gundissalinus • El Shaddai • Epigram • Essay • Exodus Rabbah • Ezekiel • Ezra Pound • Frederick Turner (poet) • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola • God Knows (novel) • Hagigah • Hasdai ibn Shaprut • Haskalah • Hayim Nahman Bialik • Hebrew Alphabet • Hebrew language • Hebrew Melodies • henry sidgwick • Herbert Butterfield • Ibn Hazm • Ibn Khafaja • Internal rhyme • Jerusalem Talmud • Jewish prayer • Jews • Judah Halevi • Ketubah • Kings of Judah • Leviticus Rabbah • Literature • Magid (Jewish mysticism) • Manichaeism • medieval Hebrew • Medieval Poetry • Merkabah mysticism • Midrash • Moses • Moses ibn Ezra • Moshe Idel • Muwashshah • Nadab and Abihu • Nahum • Odes (Horace) • Omar Khayyam • Ophanim • Osip Mandelstam • Poetry • Prayer of Manasseh • proverb • Psalms • Pumbedita • Pyramus and Thisbe • Qasida • Quran • Rabbi • Rainer Maria Rilke • Rashi • Satires (Horace) • Sefer Yetzirah • Selected Poems (Robert Pinsky) • Seraph • Shekhinah • Shema Yisrael • Solomon • Solomon Ibn Gabirol • Song of Songs • Sotah (Talmud) • Spanish poetry • Superiority (short story) • Supplication • Targum Onkelos • The Cantos • The History of English Poetry • T. S. Eliot • Valentinian (play) • Wisdom Literature • Yehuda Amichai • Yom Kippur • Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) • Zechariah (priest)
• ISBN-13: 9781400884124 / 9781400884124