The memory of love : Sūrdās sings to Krishna /
No Hindu god is closer to the soul of poetry than Krishna, and in North India no poet ever sang of Krishna more famously than SurdD=as-or Sur, for short. He lived in the sixteenth century and became so influential that for centuries afterward aspiring Krishna poets signed their compositions orally w...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Braj |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780199706006 019970600X 0190451955 9780190451950 1282235311 9781282235311 9786612235313 6612235314 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | No Hindu god is closer to the soul of poetry than Krishna, and in North India no poet ever sang of Krishna more famously than SurdD=as-or Sur, for short. He lived in the sixteenth century and became so influential that for centuries afterward aspiring Krishna poets signed their compositions orally with his name. This book takes us back to the source, offering a selection of Surdas's poems that were known and sung in the sixteenth century itself. Here we have poems of war, poems to the great rivers, poems of wit and rage, poems where the poet spills out his disappointments. Most of all, though. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Braj. |
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