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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-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol Was An Andalusian Poet And Jewish Philosopher, Also Traditionally Known By His Latinized Name Avicebron. He Was Born In Málaga Around The Year 1021 And Is Believed To Have Died Around 1058 In Valencia. The Present Selection Of Ibn Gabirol's Poetry Is By Far The Largest Compilation Of His Poems That Has Appeared In English, Yet It Is Not An Attempt To Suggest The Sweep Of His Oeuvre. It Is Heavily Weighted Toward Ibn Gabirol's Worldly Poetr

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Author

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Raymond P. Scheindlin

Publisher

Steerforth Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780914671558

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13