Grand Things to Write a Poem on: A Verse Autobiography of Shmuel Hanagid (English, Hebrew and Hebrew Edition)

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.