ISBN:
9780914671558
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9780914671565
Language:
English
Pages:
xxv, 352 Seiten
Edition:
First Archipelago Books edition
Year of publication:
2016
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ibn Gabirol, active 11th century, author Vulture in a cage. Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago, 2016
DDC:
892.41/2
Keywords:
Ibn Gabirol Translations into English
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POETRY / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
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POETRY / Inspirational & Religious
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Hebrew poetry
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POETRY / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
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POETRY / Inspirational & Religious
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Ibn-Gabirol, Shelomoh Ben-Yehudah 1021-1058
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Hebräisch
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Lyrik
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Spanien
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Jüdische Philosophie
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Geschichte 1040-1060
Abstract:
""Vulture in a cage," Solomon Ibn Gabirol's own self-description, is an apt image for a poet who was obsessed with the impediments posed by the body and the material world to the realization of his spiritual ambition of elevating his soul to the empyrean. Ibn Gabirol's poetry is enormously influential, laying the groundwork for generations of Hebrew poets who follow him...rocky and harsh, full of original imagery and barbed wit, and yet no one surpassed him for the limpid beauty of his devotional verse. His poetry is at once a record of the inner life of a tormented poet and a monument to the Judeo-Arabic culture that produced him. This book contains the most extensive collection of Ibn Gabirol's poetry ever published in English"...
Note:
A selection of Gabirol's poems never before published together as a collection
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Text hebräisch und englisch
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