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Poets of the Tamil Anthologies: Ancient Poems of Love and War
By (Author) George L. Hart
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
894.8111108
Paperback
224
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
312g
The poems of ancient Tamil are one of India's most important contributions to world literature. Presented here in English translation is a selection of roughly three hundred poems from five of the earliest poetic anthologies of classical Tamil literature. These lyrical poems are intimately related to the agricultural society that produced them, and