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

The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492

Peter Cole

548 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 ...

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