Tamil love poetry : the five hundred short poems of Aiṅkuru̲nūru̲, an early third-century anthology /

Tamil love poetry : the five hundred short poems of Aiṅkuru̲nūru̲, an early third-century anthology /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:Akanān̲ūr̲u. Kaḷir̲r̲iyān̲ainirai. English.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 200 pages).
Language:English
Series:Translations from the Asian classics
Translations from the Asian classics.
Subject:
Love poetry, Tamil -- Translations into English.
Tamil poetry -- To 1500 -- Translations into English.
Love poetry, Tamil.
Tamil poetry.
Electronic books.
Translations.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11098669
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Other authors / contributors:Selby, Martha Ann.
ISBN:9780231521581
0231521588
0231150644
9780231150644
0231150652
9780231150651
9780231150644
9780231150651
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Aiṅkur̲unūr̲u. English. Tamil love poetry. New York : Columbia University Press, 2011

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