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The dream of the poem : Hebrew poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (udgave 2007)

af Peter Cole

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Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Peter Cole's translations reveal this remarkable poetic world to English readers in all of its richness, humor, grace, gravity, and wisdom. The Dream of the Poem traces the arc of the entire period, presenting some four hundred poems by fifty-four poets, and including a panoramic historical introduction, short biographies of each poet, and extensive notes. (The original Hebrew texts are available on the Princeton University Press Web site.) By far the most potent and comprehensive gathering of medieval Hebrew poems ever assembled in English, Cole's anthology builds on what poet and translator Richard Howard has described as "the finest labor of poetic translation that I have seen in many years" and "an entire revelation: a body of lyric and didactic verse so intense, so intelligent, and so vivid that it appears to identify a whole dimension of historical consciousness previously unavailable to us." The Dream of the Poem is, Howard says, "a crowning achievement."… (mere)
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Titel:The dream of the poem : Hebrew poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Forfattere:Peter Cole
Info:Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 af Peter Cole

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This is a really fascinating collection of poetry written by Iberian Jews over a period of some five hundred years, many of them translated into English for the first time by Peter Cole. His translations are a nice balance of lively and (so far as I can tell) respect towards the original phrasing, and are supported by informative introductions about each poet and by copious notes. The Dream of the Poem is perhaps not a book to read straight through, cover to cover—some of the themes are quite repetitive and many of the poems don't appeal to my particular sensibilities. Every now and then, however, you get something which manages to retain its power even now:

Behold, blood is the name of your soul, and ink the name of your spirit [...]
For I knew my soul was dwelling in the redness as blood
and my spirit was dwelling in the blackness as ink
And there raged a war in my heart between
the blood and ink: the blood from the wind
and the ink from dust, and the black ink
over the blood was victorious...


As something to dip into over a period of time, however, this collection is pretty ideal, and of course is definitely worth looking into if you have a particular interest in the period. ( )
  siriaeve | May 19, 2012 |
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Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time. Peter Cole's translations reveal this remarkable poetic world to English readers in all of its richness, humor, grace, gravity, and wisdom. The Dream of the Poem traces the arc of the entire period, presenting some four hundred poems by fifty-four poets, and including a panoramic historical introduction, short biographies of each poet, and extensive notes. (The original Hebrew texts are available on the Princeton University Press Web site.) By far the most potent and comprehensive gathering of medieval Hebrew poems ever assembled in English, Cole's anthology builds on what poet and translator Richard Howard has described as "the finest labor of poetic translation that I have seen in many years" and "an entire revelation: a body of lyric and didactic verse so intense, so intelligent, and so vivid that it appears to identify a whole dimension of historical consciousness previously unavailable to us." The Dream of the Poem is, Howard says, "a crowning achievement."

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