God on the Hill Temple Poems from Tirupati |
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| Author:
| Annamayya,
Rao, Velcheru Narayana
Shulman, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-518283-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $87.95 |
Book Description:
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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 offertranslations of 150...
More DescriptionThe 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 offertranslations of 150 of Annamaya's poems, which are wonderfully readable as poetry in their own right.