Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil
by A. K. Ramanujan (Translator)
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In this volume, A. K. Ramanujan translates old Tamil poems selected from anthologies compiled around two millennia ago.These poems are "classical" - early ancient; they are also "classics" - works that have stood the test of time, the founding works of a whole tradition. Early classical Tamilliterature (c.100 BC - AD 250) consists of eight anthologies (Ettuttokai), the ten long poems (Pattuppattu), and a grammar called the Tolkappiyan or the "old composition". With the marriage of show more traditional form and the language of modern usage, the greatness of classical Tamil literature becomesevident to readers: the poems speak to one another, with lyricism and drama. The poems are followed by an Afterword: an essay on the Tamil world picture and its relation to Tamil poetry and poetics. The transliteration of Tamil words follows the Tamil lexicon. This edition contains a new preface byMolly Daniels-Ramanujan. show lessTags
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A. K. Ramanujan taught at the University of Chicago and at various other institutions for forty years.
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- 894.81111 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Dravidian literatures South Dravidian languages Tamil Tamil poetry –1345
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- PL4758.65 .E5 .P63 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Dravidian languages
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