Ebook: Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Author: Solomon Ibn Gabirol Peter Cole
- Tags: Ibn Gabirol -- active 11th century -- Translations into English, Ibn Gabirol -- active 11th century
- Series: Lockert library of poetry in translation
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- City: Princeton
- Language: English
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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 Read more...