Love Stands Alone: Selections from Tamil Sangam Poetry
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9780670084197
Length
xlviii+202p., 21cm.
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Composed at the turn of the Common Era, the ancient poems translated from classical Tamil in Love Stands Alone are breathtaking in their directness, subtle in their nuances and astonishingly contemporary in tone. The poems fall under two broad themes: akam, the interior and puram, the exterior. The akam poems are concerned with love in all its varied situations: clandestine and illicit; conjugal happiness and infidelity; separation and union. The puram poems ...
