Classical Telugu poetry [electronic resource] : an anthology / translated, edited and with an introduction by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Narayana Rao, Velcheru, 1932-

Shulman, David Dean, 1949-

Series:

Voices from Asia ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telugu poetry--To 1500--Translations into English.

Telugu poetry.

Telugu poetry--1500-1800--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the first anthology of classical Telugu poetry in English, gives an overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by twenty major poets who wrote between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries. The beautifully translated selections are often dramatic and unexpected in tone and effect, and sometimes highly personal. The authors have provided an informative, engaging introduction, fleshing out the history of Telugu literature, situating its poets in relation to significant literary themes and historical developments, and discussing the relationship between Telugu and the classical literature and poetry of Sanskrit.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Pronunciation

Introduction

1. Nannaya. Early to middle eleventh century

2. Nannĕcoḍa. Twelfth century?

3. Pālkuriki Somanātha. Thirteenth century

4. Tikkana. Thirteenth century

5. Maňcana. Late twelfth to early thirteenth centuries?

6. Ĕṟṟāpragaḍa. Fourteenth century

7. Nācana Somanātha. Fourteenth century

8. Śrīnātha. Late fourteenth to early fifteenth centuries

9. Bammĕra Potana. First half of fifteenth century

10. Annamayya. 1424-1503

11. Allasāni Pĕddana. Ealry sixteenth century

12. Kṛṣṇadevarā. 1509-1529

13. Nandi Timmana. Early sixteenth century

14. Dhūrjaṭi. Sixteenth century

15. Tĕnāli Rāmakṛṣṇa. Mid-sixteenth century

16. Nūtana-kavi Sūranna. Fifteenth-sixteenth century?

17. Piṅgaḷi Sūrana. Second half of the sixteenth century?

18. Appakavi. Mid-seventeenth century

19. Kṣetrayya. Seventeenth century

20. Śatakas

21. Cāṭu Verses

22. Śāhāji. 1684-1712

23. Samukhamu Veṅkaṭakṛṣṇappa Nāyaka. Late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries

24. Muddupaḷani. Mid-eighteenth century

25. Tyāgarāja. 1767-1847

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies references (p. 301-304) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92588-2

1-59734-545-8

OCLC:

475927311