The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical by Adena Tanenbaum

By Adena Tanenbaum

This learn specializes in Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra, Abraham Ibn Ezra, and Judah Halevi, polymath poets who additionally wrote philosophically-informed prose works. It probes the contemplative motifs of their non secular verse, uncovering new and, now and then, unorthodox layers of which means.

Show description

Read or Download The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval) PDF

Similar poetry books

The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan

This landmark assortment brings Ted Berrigan's released and unpublished poetry jointly in one authoritative quantity for the 1st time. Edited through the poet Alice Notley, Berrigan's moment spouse, and their sons, The accumulated Poems demonstrates the impressive variety, energy, and significance of Berrigan's paintings.

Rimbaud the Son (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Writer observe: Jody Gladding (Translator), Elizabeth Deshays (Translator)
------------------

Rimbaud the Son, broadly celebrated upon its ebook in France, investigates the lifetime of a author, the writing existence, and the paintings of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking paintings examines the storied lifetime of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by way of a brand new literary style: a meditation at the lifetime of a legend as witnessed through his contemporaries, those that knew him sooner than the legends took carry. Michon introduces us to Rimbaud the son, good friend, schoolboy, renegade, under the influence of alcohol, sexual libertine, visionary, and finally poet. Michon focuses no much less at the inventive act: What presses someone to jot down? To pursue excellence?

The writer dramatizes the lifetime of a genius whose sufferings are huge, immense whereas his pursuits are transcendent, whose lifestyles is lived with utter depth and function but in addition illness and dissolution—as if the very substance of lifestyles is its undoing. Rimbaud the Son is now masterfully translated into English, permitting a large new viewers to find for themselves the writer Publishers Weekly known as “one of the best-kept secrets and techniques of recent French prose. "

Nine Horses: Poems

9 Horses, Billy Collins's first publication of latest poems for the reason that Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the most recent curve within the extraordinary trajectory of this poet's profession. Already in his forties whilst he debuted with a full-length ebook, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has develop into the 1st poet on the grounds that Robert Frost to mix excessive severe acclaim with wide well known attraction.

Todos los poemas (1975-2012)

Si tuviéramos que designar un heredero de los angeles poesía clara y difícil de Salvador Espriu y de los angeles poesía bondadosa e intensa de Miquel Martí i Pol, Joan Margarit sería, sin duda, el elegido. l. a. dureza y, al mismo tiempo, los angeles ternura del refugio contra l. a. intemperie que es su extensa y reconocida obra poética lo sitúan entre los poetas catalanes más valorados por los angeles crítica y los lectores.

Extra info for The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval)

Sample text

It is designated in the Talmud as birkat ha-shir (“the blessing of song”), which concludes the Hallel recited at the Passover seder; see bPes. 118a. Even earlier, Nishmat apparently served as a conclusion to the morning recitation of the final chapters of the book of Psalms, whose closing verse (“Let every thing that has breath praise the Lord”; Ps. 150:6) it paraphrases; see Heinemann and Petuchowski, Literature of the Synagogue, 9–13. 64 See Schirmann, HPSP 4:708; idem, HPCS, 683–84; and Fleischer, Hebrew Liturgical Poetry, 399–400.

In response, Rabbi Judah offers a parable: To what can the case be compared? To that of a human king who had a beautiful orchard full of fine early fruit and who posted two watchmen there, one lame and the other blind . . So the lame man got astride the blind man and they took the fruits and ate them. After a time, the owner came. Said he to them: Where are the fine early fruits? Said the lame man: Have I then feet to walk with? Said the blind man to him: Have I then eyes to see? What did (the king) do?

106b, cited in Hirsch, p. 156, n. 29. chapter one 34 He put the lame man astride the blind man and judged them as one. 126 For thinkers of a Neoplatonic bent, Rabbi Judah’s solution involved a difficulty. Where he portrayed the re-embodiment of the soul after death as a necessary prerequisite to man’s final judgment and ultimate recompense, the Neoplatonic scheme viewed the reunion of the disembodied soul with her celestial source as the pinnacle of spiritual achievement. In availing themselves of such rabbinic sources, therefore, the Andalusians sometimes engaged in a process of reinterpretation which allowed them to reconcile the classical texts with their own eschatological beliefs.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.16 of 5 – based on 23 votes