- Paperback: 283 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (21 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019512734X
- ISBN-13: 978-0195127348
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 819,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book presents new English translations of 150 erotic poems composed in India's three classical languages: Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit. The poems are derived from large anthological collections that date from as early as the first centruy CE to as late as the eight century. In Martha Selby's masterful translations, the poems both stand on their own as poems in English and maintain the flavours of the original verses as reflected in idiom and structure. The poems are grouped according to themes, and annotated whenever a brief gloss is necessary. The book begins with several scholarly essays on the poems and how to read them, their origin, and the languages in which they were composed. This is followed by the poems themselves.
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Martha Ann Selby is Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Beautiful Tamil translations
5 Jan 2011
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This is a fabulous book for someone who wants to read some Sangam Tamil, Sanskrit and Prakrit love poems in English. I don't know the latter two languages, but like their poems in English. The Tamil translations are done very well. The author brings out the beauty of the ancient Sangam poems in her English translations. She also provides information about the antiquity of the Sangam poems, and about how they were found after very many centuries of being lost.
I am waiting for her translation of the Ainkurunuru poems.
I am waiting for her translation of the Ainkurunuru poems.
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Outstanding Work Reveals Beauty of India Poetry
19 Jan 2001
Format:Paperback
This is the most beautiful collection of poems I have read anywhere. Catch these love poems and fall in love.
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