Twilight of a Golden Age: Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Price tag residue on the back of the jacket, slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. / Preisschildr�ckstand auf der R�ckseite des Umschlags, leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: PREFACE -- A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Biography: Crisis and Decision -- The Vagabond Life -- Poetry in Transition: Realism and Reality -- Ibn Ezra�s Astrology -- The Uses of Wisdom -- The Soul�s Odyssey -- God Is All -- Israel: Lover and Beloved -- Courting Israel -- Transcendence and Familiarity -- Israel�s Diary -- The Playful Side -- Folk Hero -- SECULAR POETRY -- The Patron -- Misfortune -- On His Torn Garment -- The Flies -- My Honor -- The Denizens of Morah -- Song of the Nations -- For Joseph b. Amram -- Tribute to Samuel Ibn Jami' -- In Honor of Barukh Ibn Jau -- For R. Menahem of Rome and His Son Moses -- To His Beloved -- Elegy on the Death of His Son Isaac -- Lament on the Destruction of Andalusian and North African Jewry -- A Sea Voyage -- In a Lifetime -- Selections From Hay ben Meqis -- A Game of Chess -- SACRED POETRY -- God: -- Life�s Paradox -- God�s Providence -- God�s Presence -- I Have But One Request -- God, My Desire -- One Father -- God�s Identity -- No One Shares His Power -- He Sustains the World with His Care -- In God�s Hands -- You Ask for No Reward -- Ere I Knew You -- The All Comes from Him -- He Leaves His Mark on the Stars -- God�s Thoughts -- God�s Torah -- The Soul: -- The Soul�s Passion -- Chasing After Time�s Mistakes -- Put Away Time�s Delicacies -- The Bearer of His Wonders -- In the Dark of My Folly -- A Summons -- Admonition to the Soul -- In the Choicest Part of My Body -- Israel: -- Awaiting the Redeemer -- The Whisper of a Falling Leaf -- My Anointed King Is Delayed -- My Husband Has Left Me -- The Captive -- The Song of a Bird Frightens Her -- Can My Courage Endure -- My Redeemer Lives -- Grace and Charm Are Your Weapons -- I Named You My First Born -- Rejoice, Virgin Daughter -- The Visions of Ancient Seers -- In the Fairest of Lands -- When My Enemies Slander Me -- They Watch My Agony and Laugh -- Dialogue and Chorus: -- Zion and Its Foes -- The Stray Sheep -- Perfumed With Myrrh -- His Secret Life -- The Spring of My Craving -- She Lusted for Her Beloved -- Ravished by a Lion -- What Is There for Me among Mortals -- GLOSSARY OF ARABIC AND HEBREW TERMS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. - WEINBERGER presents for the first time in an English translation a broad range of the sacred and secular poetry of Abraham Ibn Ezra, an important Medieval Jewish poet and scholar and the last of an illustrious quintet of Hispanic �Golden Age� poets that included Samuel Ibn Nagrela, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra, and Judah Halevi. Abraham Ibn Ezra was one of the best-known and admired Jewish figures in the West. His Pisan Tables were the authoritative astronomical guides for Roger Bacon, Nicolas of Cusa, and Pico della Mirandola, and he was remembered for his pioneering efforts in introducing the mathematics of the Arabs to the Europeans. In Victorian England, Ibn Ezra was the model for Robert Browning�s �Rabbi Ben Ezra,� whose philosophy reflected �robust hope and cheerfulness.� Author of more than 100 books on medicine, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, poetry, linguistics, and extensive commentaries on the Bible and the Talmud, he was the model itinerant sage� teaching and writing in his native Spain as well as in North Africa, Italy, Provence, Northern France, and England. ISBN 9780817308780