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Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
Martha Selby (Ed.)
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Description for Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
Hardback. Editor(s): Selby, Martha Ann. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: jealous quarreling, anxious waiting and lamentation, clandestine love before marriage, elopement and love in separation, and patient waiting after marriage. Despite its centrality to literary and intellectual traditions, the Ainkurunuru remains relatively unknown beyond specialists. Martha Ann Selby, well-known translator of classical Indian poetry and literature, takes the bold step of opening this anthology to ... Read more
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: jealous quarreling, anxious waiting and lamentation, clandestine love before marriage, elopement and love in separation, and patient waiting after marriage. Despite its centrality to literary and intellectual traditions, the Ainkurunuru remains relatively unknown beyond specialists. Martha Ann Selby, well-known translator of classical Indian poetry and literature, takes the bold step of opening this anthology to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Translations from the Asian Classics
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231150644
SKU
V9780231150644
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About Martha Selby (Ed.)
Martha Ann Selby is associate professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and an NEH Fellow at the National Humanities Center. She is the author of Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India and A Circle of Six Seasons: A Selection from Old Tamil, Prakrit, and Sanskrit Verse and the coeditor of Tamil ... Read more
Reviews for Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
The book is most heartily recommended to all, not just to specialists in Tamil literature...
Jaroslav Vacek, Charles University in Prague Pandanus
Jaroslav Vacek, Charles University in Prague Pandanus