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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195182847
ISBN-139780195182842
eBay Product ID (ePID)44463030
Product Key Features
Book TitleGod on the Hill : Temple Poems from Tirupati
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicHinduism / General, General
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Poetry
AuthorAnnamayya
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight7.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2004-065419
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsThese renderings of Annamayya's poems to Lord Venkatesvara waste no words in the long-practiced invisibility of translators Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman. With a practiced wit borne of long experience, a blunt honesty borne of deep conviction, Annamayya cuts quickly and so do the translators. The concision doesn't just invite, it forces the reader to participate in the magical play of word and intimacy. The unaided poems can be read for pure joy, while the apparatus is just enough to make second and third readings as rich and exciting as the first.
Dewey Decimal894.8/2712
SynopsisThe devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamaya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the Telugu and Tamil regions and would become an important vehicle for the composition of Carnatic music - the classical music of South India. In this book, Rao and Shulman offer translations of 150 of Annamaya's poems, which are wonderfully readable as poetry in their own right., The devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamaya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the Telugu and Tamil regions and would become an important vehicle for the composition of Carnatic music - the classical music of South India. In this book, Rao and Shulman offer translations of 150 of Annamaya's poems. All of them are addressed to the god associated with the famous temple city of Tirupati-Annamaya's home-a deity who is sometimes referred to as "god on the hill" or "lord of the seven hills." The poems are couched in a simple and accessible language invented by Annamaya for this purpose. Rao and Shulman's elegant and lyrical modern translations of these beautiful and moving verses are wonderfully readable as poetry in their own right, and will be of great interest to scholars of South Indian history and culture.
LC Classification NumberPL4780.9.T25A24 2005
