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Into S?R's Ocean
John Stratton Hawley
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Hardcover. Into Sur's Ocean picks up many threads from Sur's Ocean, a volume in the Murty Classical Library of India, translated by John Stratton Hawley. In this book, Hawley provides a substantial introduction to Surdas, the great sixteenth century Hindi poet; an overview of editions; an analysis of the translation; and commentary on 433 poems. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 1035 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 25 x 17. .
Sur’s Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition was published in 2015 as the fifth volume of the Murty Classical Library of India. That book contains Kenneth Bryant’s critical reconstructions of 433 poems of Surdas that circulated in the sixteenth century, when this great Hindi poet lived, and it includes facing-page, English verse translations by John Stratton Hawley. The name traditionally assigned to these poems is Sursagar, meaning Sur’s Ocean.
Into Sūr’s Ocean: Poetry, Context, and Commentary picks up many threads from that volume, and provides a substantial introduction to the poet, his medium, and his oeuvre; an overview of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
1035
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Oriental Series
Number of Pages
1050
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9780674975583
SKU
V9780674975583
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About John Stratton Hawley
John Stratton Hawley is an award-winning translator and scholar of religious studies. He has written extensively on the bhakti movement and is the Claire Tow Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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