Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems

Name: Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems
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ISBN: 9781590176788

ISBN-10: 1590176782

ISBN-13: 9781590176788

Edition: 2014

Authors: A. K. Ramanujan

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If Ezra Pound was “the inventor of Chinese poetry for our times” as T. S. Eliot once remarked, then the celebrated translator, poet, and scholar A. K. Ramanujan is the inventor of Tamil poetry for our times. The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from the Classical Tamil includes the work of fifty-one poets selected from a renowned anthology of love poetry, the Kuruntokai, that dates back to the first three centuries AD. These poems, classified in the Tamil tradition as akam, or “inner part,” take the love of man and woman as the ideal expression of the “inner world,” which in itself is defined by five landscapes—mountains, forest, countryside, seashore, and wasteland—each with its distinctive…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 1/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 4.46" wide x 6.97" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English