Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691011214 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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The poems of the first section, "After Psalms," formally evoke the songs of King David, another poet-warrior, while treating epic events of the poet's own time, such as "The Miracle at Sea" or a "Victory Over Seville." While the psalm-like poems read very much like the King James translation, the 37 aphorisms of the second section, "After Proverbs," often seem to prefigure the worldy-wise irony of later Yiddish literature ("The rich are small in number/ and the brilliant likewise are few;/ and the number of each is further reduced/ when they s
Magnificent Alyssa A. Lappen This book sat on my shelf for years until I turned to it in a search of a specific poem concerning the 1013 sack of Cordoba. Unfortunately, that particular work is not included.Nevertheless, this is an extraordinary collection of magnificent translations. The poems are as bright and fresh as far more famous classics, and the best contemporary works.The first pi. a singing, full-bodied and essential translation Cole's translations of the poet Shmuel Hanagid, long ranked as one of the great untranslatables of medieval Hebrew poetry for his packed, punning and allusive lines, is a kind of miracle of transhistorical perfect pitch. The poems can be savored for the richness and variety of their diction on a piecemeal basis, but when the book is read whole, a man emerges wi
Peter Cole's groundbreaking versions of HaNagid's poems capture the poet's combination of secular and religious passion, as well as his inspired linking of Hebrew and Arabic poetic practice. The first major poet of the Hebrew literary renaissance of Moslem Spain, Shmuel Ben Yosef Ha-Levi HaNagid (993-1056 c.e.) was also the Prime Minister of the Muslim state of Granada, battlefield commander of the non-Jewish Granadan army, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish world that stretched from Andalusia to Baghdad. This annotated Selected Poems is the most comprehensive collection of HaNagid's work published to date in English."The Multiple Troubles of Man"The multiple troubles of man,my brother, like slander and pain,amaze you? Consider the heartwhich holds them allin strangeness, and doesn't break."I'd Suck Bitter Poison from the Viper's Mouth"I'd suck bitter poison from the viper's mouthand live by the basilisk's hole forever,rather than suffer through evenings with boors,fighting for crumbs from their table.