In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali
by Edward C. Dimock, Denise Levertov (Joint Author)
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Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic religious movement that swept across most of northern and eastern India in the period from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the powerful and moving lyrics collected and elegantly translated here depict the love of Radha for the god Krishna--a love whose intensity and range of emotions trace the course of all true love between man and woman and between man and God. Intermingling physical and metaphysical imagery, the spiritual show more yearning for the divine is articulated in the passionate language of intense sensual desire for an irresistible but ultimately unpossessable lover, thus touching a resonant chord in our humanity. show lessTags
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Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic religious movement that swept across most of northern and eastern India in the period from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the powerful and moving lyrics collected and elegantly translated here "In Praise of Krishna: Songs from The Bengali ", depict the love of Radha for the god Krishna—a love whose intensity and range of emotions trace the course of all true love between man and woman and between man and God. Intermingling physical and metaphysical imagery, the spiritual yearning for the divine is articulated in the passionate language of intense sensual desire for an irresistible but ultimately unpossessable lover, thus touching a resonant chord in our humanity.
This book show more is one of the volumes initiated and sponsored by the Asian Literature Program of the Asia Society, New York. It has been accepted in the Indian Series of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. show less
This book show more is one of the volumes initiated and sponsored by the Asian Literature Program of the Asia Society, New York. It has been accepted in the Indian Series of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. show less
Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic religious movement that swept across most of northern and eastern India in the period from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the powerful and moving lyrics collected and elegantly translated here "In Praise of Krishna: Songs from The Bengali ", depict the love of Radha for the god Krishna—a love whose intensity and range of emotions trace the course of all true love between man and woman and between man and God. Intermingling physical and metaphysical imagery, the spiritual yearning for the divine is articulated in the passionate language of intense sensual desire for an irresistible but ultimately unpossessable lover, thus touching a resonant chord in our humanity.
This book show more is one of the volumes initiated and sponsored by the Asian Literature Program of the Asia Society, New York. It has been accepted in the Indian Series of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. show less
This book show more is one of the volumes initiated and sponsored by the Asian Literature Program of the Asia Society, New York. It has been accepted in the Indian Series of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. show less
Marvelous love poems from the bhakti tradition celebrating the love of Krishna and Radha.
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Born in Essex, England, Denise Levertov became a U.S. citizen after her marriage to Mitchell Goodman, the writer who was indicted, with Benjamin Spock and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, for his antiwar activities. She came to New York to live in 1948. Levertov acknowledges that her writing was influenced by William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, show more and Robert Duncan. After her first book, The Double Image (1946), was published in England in 1946, she did not produce another volume until 1957, when City Lights brought out Here and Now. In 1961 she was poetry editor for the Nation, and in 1965 she received the grant in literature from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Her essays collected in The Poet in the World (1973) and Light Up the Cave are written with a penetrating intelligence. Winner of numerous awards and prizes, she is a poet of reverence and fierce moral drive. Denise Levertov died December 20, 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali
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- 1967
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Religion & Spirituality
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- 891.441 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Modern Indic languages Bengali Poetry
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- PK1771 .E3 .D5 — Language and Literature Indo-Iranian languages and literatures Indo-Iranian philology and literature Indo-Aryan languages Modern Indo-Aryan languages Particular languages and dialects Bengali
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