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The Dream of the Poem:
Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Translated, Edited & Introduced by Peter Cole

Book Description | Table of Contents
Introduction [HTML] or [PDF format] | Notes to the Introduction [PDF only] | Hebrew Texts of the Poems, Part I: Muslim Spain [PDF only] | Hebrew Texts of the Poems, Part II: Christian Spain and Provence [PDF only] | Index of the first words of the poems in Hebrew [PDF only]

ADDITIONAL REVIEWS:

"Traversing five centuries, four hundred poems, and fifty poets, the anthology represents a remarkable literature that evolved and flourished between the East and the West, between sacred and the profane, and amid the collision and collusion of traditions, religions, and languages . . . all bolstered by Cole's extensive introductions, biographies, commentary, and glossaries."--American Poet

Praise for Peter Cole's Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (both Princeton):"Cole's translations . . . shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original."--Choice

Praise for Peter Cole's Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (both Princeton): "Fresh, worldly, intimate, and wise."--Booklist

Praise for Peter Cole's Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (both Princeton): "Cole's vigorous inventive translation is equal to the task of rendering [the] work [of a poet] whose range encompassed commerce and God, war and wine. HaNagid emerges as a man of identifiably modern--even enlightened--breadth, even as the rest of Europe languished in its Dark Ages."--Publishers Weekly

ENDORSEMENTS:

"A sterling work of translation of unsurpassed scope, quality and importance."--Ross Brann, Cornell University

"The finest labor of poetic translation I have seen in many years.... An entire revelation."--Richard Howard, University of Houston

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