Grand Things to Write a Poem On : A Verse Autobiography of Shmuel Hanagid

• Autore: Halkin Hillel
• Pubblicazione: Jerusalem, : Gefen Publishing House, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 892.4/12
• Soggetto topico: Languages & Literatures; Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures
• Persona (resp. second.): HalkinHillel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Introduction; THE POEMS; Rise, Friend; The Stag of Love; How Dare Dream of Tinting Lips So Red?; That Handsome Young Waiter; Brandy; The Compliment; The New Love; After A Quarrel; The Vanished Lover; The Cloud; The Poet Misses His Friends; To A Friend, On Leaving Cordoba; The Wanderer's Lament; The Baldy; Salvation's Cup; Invitation To A Party; Now Av Is Dead; A Letter To Rabbi Yosef ben Shmuel Congratulating Him On A Halakhic Ruling; Spoken In A Tavern ; The Poet Replies To A Friend's Letter of Sympathy After His Dismissal From His Post And The Murder Of His Brother-In-Law And Nephew.Conversation With A Spice Box; The Jasmine; The Poet Replies To A Minister's Letter of Pardon; Thanksgiving; In The Worst of Times; The Battle of El Fuente; Hallelu; The Thunderstorm; The Battle of Samantin; To His Son After Examining His Copy Book; The Death of Isaac; A Letter To His Son Before Battle; Go, Tongueless Dove; War; The Poet Gets Birthday Greetings From A Woman (Perhaps His Wife); Three Eclipses In One Year; A Gift From The Battlefield ; What Would I Not Do For The YouthA Prayer For Sleep; The Sandy Pass; The Weary Campaigner; The Garden; The Old Fort; At The Age Of One-and-Sixty Years; I Lood Around For My Old Friends; Time's Treachery; NOTES TO THE POEMS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Sommario/riassunto: Shmuel Hanagid, poet, rabbi, Talmudic scholar, statesman, general and bon vivant was born in Cordoba, Spain, in 993 C.E. Settling in the city-state of Granada, he rose through its court life to become Grand Vizier and chief military commander. For years he led Granada's army into the field against its foes. Hanagid was the first major medieval Hebrew poet and the first to write on secular as well as religious themes. Often autobiographical, his poems are about such subjects as God, nature, friendship, love (of both sexes), wine, war, death, and the pains of growing old. Across a thous
• Altri titoli varianti: Grand Things to Write a Poem On
• Titolo autorizzato: Grand Things to Write a Poem On
• ISBN: 965-229-503-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910163101303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II