Modern Hebrew Verse
1986; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 60; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/40141688
ISSN1945-8134
Autores Tópico(s)Biblical Studies and Interpretation
ResumoWhat characterizes Hebrew poetry as a whole is the absence of a common characteristic (other than the basic fact of its being written in Hebrew). Among its practitioners are writers born in Europe and others born in Israel; there are poets who have been influenced by traditionally Jewish or biblical themes, and others whose work was shaped by Russian, French, or English literary elements, as well as those who have partaken of both worlds; and there are those who have sought a continuity with the styles and motifs of the past, and others who have set out on paths of their own, seeking their individual voices. The rubric modern Hebrew poet must be applied first to figures such as Nathan Alterman (1910-71), Abraham Shlonsky (1900-73), Uri Zvi Greenberg (1895-1981), and Leah Goldberg (1911-70). They were the first to identify themselves as modernists, they wrote manifestos on modernism, and they gave Hebrew poetry its voice.
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