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Highlights
- The short lyric poem appears with great frequency in Sanskrit collections and displays a wide range of themes.
- Author(s): Amaru & Bhartri Hari
- 327 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Series Name: Clay Sanskrit Library
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Short lyrical poems in a Sanskrit-English bilingual edition.Book Synopsis
The short lyric poem appears with great frequency in Sanskrit collections and displays a wide range of themes. Bhartri-hari was the most famous composer. Ámaru and Bílhana also offer excellent examples.
This anthology of the Love Lyrics of three Indian poets conjures up an atmosphere of love both sensual and social, ever in tension with love's rejection or repression. The flavor of all these poems--Ámaru's seventh-century C.E. "Hundred Poems," Bhartri-hari's anthology "Love, Politics, Disenchantment," from the fourth century, and Bílhana's eleventh-century "Fifty Stanzas of a Thief"--is the universalized aesthetic experience of love. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.orgReview Quotes
"No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience."-- "The Times Higher Education Supplement"
"Published in the geek-chic format."-- "BookForum"
"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance."--Willis G. Regier "The Chronicle Review"
"The Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot. . . . Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes."-- "New Criterion"
"Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs."-- "Tricycle"
Dimensions (Overall): 6.68 Inches (H) x 4.66 Inches (W) x .66 Inches (D)
Weight: .52 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 327
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Poetry
Series Title: Clay Sanskrit Library
Publisher: Clay Sanskrit
Format: Hardcover
Author: Amaru & Bhartri Hari
Language: English
Street Date: February 1, 2005
TCIN: 84311449
UPC: 9780814799383
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-3631
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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