Abstract
If Shmuel ben Yosef ha-Levi ibn Nagrella, better known as Shmuel ha-Nagid (938–1055), has been variously praised by his contemporaries, later medieval litterateurs and moderns as an innovative and forceful writer, his poetry qua poetry has been subjected to little close scrutiny. Three short poems have been analyzed as wholes; individual stichs illustrative of typical figures and rhetorical devices in the Hebrew poetry of Spain have been cited; diverse features of a good many genres, including influences of Arabic models have been noted; and various insightful observations have been made.
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