Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil

by A. K. Ramanujan (Editor), A. K. Ramanujan (Translator), David Shulman (Foreword by)

Overview

Translations based on: Ettuttokai; Pattuppattu; and Tolkappiyam.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231157353
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	06/21/2011
Edition description:	with a new foreword
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) was a scholar, poet, novelist, and playwright who wrote in English and Kannada. Until his death, he served as the William E. Colvin Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and on the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.David Shulman is the Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the world's foremost authorities on the languages of India.