Tamil Love Poetry
Tamil Love Poetry

Author: Martha Ann Selby

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0231150652

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Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry and known to be a work of enduring importance. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology renders the five landscapes of reciprocal love distinctive to the genre: 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 Ainkurunur.

Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics
Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9789004100428

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This indispensable work for Tamil love poetry of South India deals with the relationship between the oldest grammar and poetics, "Tolk ppiyam," and the ancient literature ("Sangam" literature) of the 1-3 C. A.D., providing the original meanings and historical changes of many technical terms of love poetry.

Classical Tamil Love Poetry
Classical Tamil Love Poetry

Author: M Nazir Ali

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2013-11-29

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1482801191

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Ainkurunuru is a collection of five hundred poems written by five different poets who lived two thousand years before. It tells you the story of the lovers, their sadness, joy, jealousies, and quarrels in verses of breathtaking sophistication and indirection. It is about the art and life of a people almost irretrievably lost, found in palm script, and restored by scholars in love with the Tamil language.

Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics
Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics

Author: Takanobu Takahashi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-07-17

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9004658602

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This indispensable work for Tamil love poetry of South India deals with the relationship between the oldest grammar and poetics, Tolkāppiyam, and the ancient literature (Sangam literature) of the 1-3 C. A.D., providing the original meanings and historical changes of many technical terms of love poetry.

The Interior Landscape
The Interior Landscape

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780195635010

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This classic anthology of translations has long been out of print. The poems come from one of the earliest surviving texts of Tamil poetry, the Kuruntokai, an anthology of love lyrics probably recorded during the first three centuries AD. Seventy-six of these classical poems have here beengiven a modern language and form. In an effort at fidelity to the effect of the images and their placement in the original, Ramanujan has given a visual shape to the poems by typographic devices. An essay on Tamil poetry explains its techniques and enriches the reader's pleasure in these quiet, controlled, yet dramatic poems.

Love Stands Alone
Love Stands Alone

Author: A R Venkatachalapathy

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-07-15

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 8184752423

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The breathtaking poems in Love Stands Alone speak to us across time, space, language and culture. The interior, akam, and the exterior, puram, form their two overarching themes. The akam poems are concerned with love in all its varied situations: clandestine and illicit; conjugal happiness and infidelity; separation and union. The puram poems encompass all other aspects of worldly life: wars and battlefields, the munificence of kings and chieftains, and the wisdom of bards. With a comprehensive introduction by A.R. Venkatachalapathy, M.L. Thangappa’s translations delight the senses and bring alive a world long past.

The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems
The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems

Author: A. K. Ramanujan

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1590176782

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In The Interior Landscape the great Indian poet and translator A.K. Ramanujan has drawn on a celebrated anthology of classical Tamil poetry to compose an unforgettable sequence of love poems. The story unfolds in a series of dramatic exchanges between a shifting array of characters—the lovers, relatives, friends, rivals, and sundry passersby—and as it does we are conducted through five phases of love, from first meeting, anxiety, infidelity and separation to final union, each associated with a lush interior landscape of its own. Immersed in the glories of the natural world, the poems evoke the whole spectrum of love while also capturing the gossip and wisecracking of those who look on from outside.