Into Surs Ocean - Poetry, Context, and Commentary

Informationen zum Autor John Stratton Hawley is an award-winning translator and scholar of religious studies. He has written extensively on the bhakti movement and is the Claire Tow Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. Zusammenfassung Into Sur’s Ocean picks up many threads from Sur’s Ocean, a volume in the Murty Classical Library of India, translated by John Stratton Hawley. In this book, Hawley provides a substantial introduction to Surdas, the great sixteenth century Hindi poet; an overview of editions; an analysis of the translation; and commentary on 433 poems.

Product details

• Authors: John Stratton Hawley, Hawley John Stratton
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2017
• EAN: 9780674975583
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97558-3
• No. of pages: 1050
• Series: Harvard Oriental Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Poetry, POETRY / Asian / General, Asian History, Indian sub-continent, HISTORY / Asia / South / General