Selected poems of Shmuel HaNagid
By: translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole.
Contributors: Cole, Peter, 1957-
Series: Lockert library of poetry in translation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Samuel, ha-Nagid, 993-1056 -- Translations into English.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-233).