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Grand Things to Write a Poem on: A Verse Autobiography of Shmuel Hanagid
Grand Things to Write a Poem on A Verse Autobiography of Shmuel Hanagid Author: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, ... more »Shmuel Hanagid's poems address subjects such as God, nature, friendship, love (of both sexes), wine, war, death, and the pains of growing old.« less