In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali
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Book Overview
Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic religious movement that swept across most of northern and eastern India in the period from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the powerful and moving lyrics collected and elegantly translated here depict the love of Radha for the god Krishna--a love whose intensity and range of emotions trace the course of all true love between man and woman and between man and God. Intermingling physical and metaphysical imagery, the spiritual yearning for the divine is articulated in the passionate language of intense sensual desire for an irresistible but ultimately unpossessable lover, thus touching a resonant chord in our humanity.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226152316
ISBN13:9780226152318
Release Date:August 1981
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:118 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"
Customer Reviews
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Beautiful!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
The reviews say it all. This is a very fortuitous partnership of scholar and poet! The songs come alive in their hands. Makes me want to sing them.
A gem of erotic poetry conveying the flavor (rasa) of love.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
That Edward Dimock, the consummate scholar of Bengali studies, and Denise Levertov, the consummate modern poet, would collaborate together is a match made in heaven. The book is a gem. Give it to someone you love, yet better still, read it to him or her.Or savor it alone in quiet still moments so delicious that only spiritual erotic love poems, perfectly and sensually rendered, could dare express their rare flavor. That flavor, rasa, is the taste of love, served up authentically and exquisitely, but alas, in far too small a portion.Nonetheless don't hesitate. Bite
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