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

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

Translations based on: Ettuttokai; Pattuppattu; and Tolkappiyam.

Author Biography

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.