TY  - BOOK
AU  - ha-Nagid,Samuel
TI  - Selected poems of Shmuel HaNagid
SN  - 9780691011202
U1  - 892.412 23
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Princeton, N.J
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Samuel, ha-Nagid, 993-1056 -- Translations into English
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Poetry (poetic works by one author)
N2  - 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 Moslem state of Granada, battlefield commander of the non-Jewish Granada army, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish world that stretched from Andalusia to Baghdad.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
ER  -