Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)

Poet, translator, folklorist A. K. Ramanujan has been recognized 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 millennium ago. This edition contains a new preface