Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)

Ramanujan, A. K.

ISBN 10: 0231051077 / ISBN 13: 9780231051071

Published by Columbia University Press, 1985

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Synopsis:

Poet, translator, folklorist A. K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. In this volume, A. K. Ramanujan translates old Tamil poems selected from anthologies compiled around two millennium ago. This edition contains a new preface

About the Author: A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) was a scholar, poet, novelist, and playwright who wrote in English and Kannada. Until his death, he served as the William E. Colvin Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and on the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.David Shulman is the Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the world's foremost authorities on the languages of India.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Poems of Love and War: From the Eight ...
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Acceptable