Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit (eBook)

An Anthology

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2017
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54546-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. Noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in a modern English vernacular.

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Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in a modern English vernacular. The volume features works by seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to read and appreciate the poems in English.Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained. Parthasarathy shows that Sanskrit poets are our contemporaries despite the centuries that separate us, as they speak simply and passionately to a wide range of human experience. Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit offers English-speaking readers an enticing and tantalizing initiation into the riches and beauty of this venerable poetic tradition.

Autor

R. Parthasarathy is professor emeritus of English at Skidmore College. He is the editor and translator of The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India (Columbia, 1993).

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbhinanda That’s How I Saw HerAmaruWho Needs the Gods?In a Hundred PlacesA Taste of AmbrosiaPincersThe BrideAnonLovers’ QuarrelThe PledgeA Lover’s WelcomeRegretStoneheartedFeigning SleepRemorseWalking the Street by Her HouseThe SheetsA Woman WrongedAubadeLike the Wheels of a ChariotThe WordAn InvitationThe TravelerThe Devoted WifeThe Kingdom’s HappinessHairWild NightsThank OfferingAt the Cremation GroundOn a Rainy DayWhen Winter ComesJewelsThe Creaking BedShe Protests Too MuchShe Doesn’t Let Go of Her PrideThe Ways of LoveA Lover’s WordThe HawkA NeedleTime WastedThe Scholar’s LifeFoolish HeartSupreme BlissBāṇaIn a Corner of the Village ShrineBhartṛhariWise MenPoets’ ExcessesThe Love GameHipsFear of DeathDesire AloneAdoration of WomanThe Poet Speaks to the KingContentmentMan’s LifeOld AgeWhite FlagBhāskara IIElementary ArithmeticBhavabhūtiThe Critic ScornedBhāvakadevīBitter HarvestBhojaScrambling Out of the WaterBilhaṇaBite MarksIn Life After LifeAll for LoveDevaguptaDrumbeatsDharmakīrtiThe WayJagannātha PaṇḍitarājaIndra’s HeavenJaghanacapalāWifeKālidāsaFlight of the DeerSuch Innocent MovesBlessed SleepKarṇotpalaThe LampKeśaṭaThe CamelKṣemendraAll Eyes on the DoorKṣitīśaThe Red SealKumāradāsaAlbaKuṭalāFurtive LovemakingMāgha The Art of PoetryScentMahodadhiStop Being WillfulMorikāDon’t GoMurāriHidden Fingernail MarksAn Actor in a FarceRājaputra ParpaṭiBlow Out the LampRājaśekharaHer FaceRudraṭa What the Young Wife Said to the TravelerŚaraṇaGirl Drawing Water from a WellSiddhokaThe Empty RoadŚīlābhaṭṭārikāThen and NowSonnokaDriven by PassionŚrīharṣaThe Smart GirlIn Her DirectionVallaṇaSea of ShameOn the GrassThe Essence of PoetryVarāhaPoring Over a BookVidyāHollow PleasuresComplaintThe RiverbankVikaṭanitambā The BedA Word of AdviceYogeśvaraFar from HomeWhen the Rains ComeNotesSources of PoemsBibliographyCreditsIndex of Titles and First LinesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Translations from the Asian Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Translations from the Asian Classics
• Übersetzer: R. Parthasarathy
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54546-0 / 0231545460
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54546-4 / 9780231545464