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

by Hillel Halkin

Hillel Halkin has chosen 70 of Shmuel Hanagid's more interesting poems to reprint and translate. Born a thousand years ago, poet, rabbi, Talmudic scholar, statesman, general, general, and bon-vivant, Shmuel Hanagid was the first major medieval Hebrew poets. He wrote on religious, as well as once-forbidden secular topics. Often autobiographical, Shmuel Hanagid's poems address subjects such as God, nature, friendship, love (of both sexes), wine, war, death, and the pains of growing old.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1999

About the author

Hillel Halkin (born 1939) is an American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist, who has lived in Israel since 1970.

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Reviews

[Isaiah Desmond · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice collection of verses that give modern-day readers insight into the lives and times of the peoples of Al-Andalus.