Poems of Love and War, from the Eight Anthologies and Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil

Abstract

Poet, translator, folklorist A. K. Ramanujan has been recognised as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. In this volume, A. K. Ramanujan translates old Tamil poems selected from anthologies compiled around two millennia ago. This edition contains a new preface by Molly Daniels-Ramanujan.