Author: Nammāḻvār
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780144000104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Tradition recognizes 12 avatars devoted to Visnu who lived in the 6th and 9th century in the Tamil speaking region of South India.
Hymns for the Drowning
Author: Nammalvar
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 935118742X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The poems in this book are some of the earliest about Visnu, one of the Hindu Trinity, also known as Tirumal, the Dark One. Tradition recognizes twelve alvars, saint-poets devoted to Visnu, who lived between the sixth and ninth century in the Tamil-speaking region of south India. These devotees of Visnu and their counterparts, the devotees of Siva (nayanmar), changed and revitalized Hinduism and their devotional hymns addressed to Visnu are among the earliest bhakti (devotional) texts in any Indian language. In this selection from Nammalvar's works, the translations like the originals reflect the alternations of philosophic hymns and love poems, through recurring voices, roles and places. They also enact a progression"from wonder at the Lord's works, to the experience of loving him and watching others love him, to moods of questioning and despair and finally to the experience of being devoured and possessed by him.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 935118742X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The poems in this book are some of the earliest about Visnu, one of the Hindu Trinity, also known as Tirumal, the Dark One. Tradition recognizes twelve alvars, saint-poets devoted to Visnu, who lived between the sixth and ninth century in the Tamil-speaking region of south India. These devotees of Visnu and their counterparts, the devotees of Siva (nayanmar), changed and revitalized Hinduism and their devotional hymns addressed to Visnu are among the earliest bhakti (devotional) texts in any Indian language. In this selection from Nammalvar's works, the translations like the originals reflect the alternations of philosophic hymns and love poems, through recurring voices, roles and places. They also enact a progression"from wonder at the Lord's works, to the experience of loving him and watching others love him, to moods of questioning and despair and finally to the experience of being devoured and possessed by him.
Hymns for the Drowning
Author: Nammāl̲vār
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691064925
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Description for this book, Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Visnu by Nammalvar, will be forthcoming.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691064925
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Description for this book, Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Visnu by Nammalvar, will be forthcoming.
Hymns for the Drowning
Author: Antonio Roque
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781403396952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781403396952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Hymns for the Drowning
Author: Nammalvar
Publisher: Prhi
ISBN: 9780143430582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The poems in this book are some of the earliest about Visnu, one of the Hindu Trinity, also known as Tirumal, the Dark One. Tradition recognizes twelve alvars, saint-poets devoted to Visnu, who lived between the sixth and ninth century in the Tamil-speaking region of south India. These devotees of Visnu and their counterparts, the devotees of Siva (nayanmar), changed and revitalized Hinduism and their devotional hymns addressed to Visnu are among the earliest bhakti (devotional) texts in any Indian language. In this selection from Nammalvar's works, the translations like the originals reflect the alternations of philosophic hymns and love poems, through recurring voices, roles and places. They also enact a progression"from wonder at the Lord's works, to the experience of loving him and watching others love him, to moods of questioning and despair and finally to the experience of being devoured and possessed by him.
Publisher: Prhi
ISBN: 9780143430582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The poems in this book are some of the earliest about Visnu, one of the Hindu Trinity, also known as Tirumal, the Dark One. Tradition recognizes twelve alvars, saint-poets devoted to Visnu, who lived between the sixth and ninth century in the Tamil-speaking region of south India. These devotees of Visnu and their counterparts, the devotees of Siva (nayanmar), changed and revitalized Hinduism and their devotional hymns addressed to Visnu are among the earliest bhakti (devotional) texts in any Indian language. In this selection from Nammalvar's works, the translations like the originals reflect the alternations of philosophic hymns and love poems, through recurring voices, roles and places. They also enact a progression"from wonder at the Lord's works, to the experience of loving him and watching others love him, to moods of questioning and despair and finally to the experience of being devoured and possessed by him.
Hymns for the drowning Tiruvāymoli, engl., Ausz. - Tiruviruttan, engl., Ausz
Hymns for the Drowning
Author: Christopher Cyrill
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865080437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Five years in the writing, Hymns For The Drowning is a cultural landmark. We are in the presence of a young talent that is developing beyond our wildest imaginings.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865080437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Five years in the writing, Hymns For The Drowning is a cultural landmark. We are in the presence of a young talent that is developing beyond our wildest imaginings.
Hymns for the Fallen
Author: Todd Decker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520282329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. THE PRESTIGE COMBAT FILM -- 1. Movies and Memorials -- 2. Soundtracks and Scores -- PART II. DIALOGUE -- 3. Soldiers' Talk -- 4. Soldiers' Song -- 5. Disembodied Voices -- PART III. SOUND EFFECTS -- 6. Nothing Sounds Like an M-16 -- 7. Helicopter Music -- PART IV. MUSIC -- 8. Unmetered -- 9. Metered -- 10. Elegies -- 11. End Titles -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520282329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. THE PRESTIGE COMBAT FILM -- 1. Movies and Memorials -- 2. Soundtracks and Scores -- PART II. DIALOGUE -- 3. Soldiers' Talk -- 4. Soldiers' Song -- 5. Disembodied Voices -- PART III. SOUND EFFECTS -- 6. Nothing Sounds Like an M-16 -- 7. Helicopter Music -- PART IV. MUSIC -- 8. Unmetered -- 9. Metered -- 10. Elegies -- 11. End Titles -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Songs of Experience
Author: Norman Cutler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253114198
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"... a significant contribution to the field... great insight, learning, and clarity." -- George Hart III, University of California, Berkeley "A master's hand is behind this volume." -- Religious Studies Review "... eminently readable... artfully explains the initial spirit and modern understanding of Tamil bhakti poetry... " -- Pacific Affairs "Norman Cutler's major achievement in Songs of Experience is the new critical perspective he provides on bhakti poetry." -- The Journal of Religion Cutler reveals the link between Tamil poetry and religion. His fluent translations make the poems -- songs of the experience of God -- live for us as they did for their first audience nearly fifteen centuries ago.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253114198
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"... a significant contribution to the field... great insight, learning, and clarity." -- George Hart III, University of California, Berkeley "A master's hand is behind this volume." -- Religious Studies Review "... eminently readable... artfully explains the initial spirit and modern understanding of Tamil bhakti poetry... " -- Pacific Affairs "Norman Cutler's major achievement in Songs of Experience is the new critical perspective he provides on bhakti poetry." -- The Journal of Religion Cutler reveals the link between Tamil poetry and religion. His fluent translations make the poems -- songs of the experience of God -- live for us as they did for their first audience nearly fifteen centuries ago.
English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Madeleine Forrell Marshall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194253
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it. This book takes a more balanced approach to the work of four writers and concludes that only eighteenth-century Britain, with its understanding of public verse, common truth, and the utility of poetry, could have invented the English hymn as we know it. The early hymns sought to inspire, teach, stir, and entertain congregations. The essential purpose shifted slightly in line with each poet's setting and in accord with the poetic thought of his day. For Isaac Watts's Independents, powerful traditional imagery was appropriate. Charles Wesley's enthusiasm proceeded from and served the spirit of the revival. John Newton's prophetic vision particularly suited the impoverished community at Olney. William Cowper's masterful handling of formal conventions and his idiosyncratic personal hymns reflect his poetic, rather than clerical, vocation. Despite such temporal variations, the great poetry by each man displays themes of general Christian relevance, suggesting common experience, showing normative features of the genre, and bearing a complex and intriguing relationship to secular literature.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194253
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it. This book takes a more balanced approach to the work of four writers and concludes that only eighteenth-century Britain, with its understanding of public verse, common truth, and the utility of poetry, could have invented the English hymn as we know it. The early hymns sought to inspire, teach, stir, and entertain congregations. The essential purpose shifted slightly in line with each poet's setting and in accord with the poetic thought of his day. For Isaac Watts's Independents, powerful traditional imagery was appropriate. Charles Wesley's enthusiasm proceeded from and served the spirit of the revival. John Newton's prophetic vision particularly suited the impoverished community at Olney. William Cowper's masterful handling of formal conventions and his idiosyncratic personal hymns reflect his poetic, rather than clerical, vocation. Despite such temporal variations, the great poetry by each man displays themes of general Christian relevance, suggesting common experience, showing normative features of the genre, and bearing a complex and intriguing relationship to secular literature.
The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom
Author: George L. Hart
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023151252X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru. This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries CE in old Tamil—the literary language of ancient Tamilnadu—was composed before Aryan influence had penetrated the south. It is thus a unique testament to pre-Aryan India. Beyond its importance for understanding the development of South Asia's history, culture, religion, and linguistics, the Purananuru is a great work of literature, reflecting accurately and profoundly the life of southern India 2,000 years ago. One of the few works of classical India that confronts life without the insulation of a philosophical facade and that makes no basic assumptions about karma and the afterlife, the Purananuru has universal appeal. It faces the world as a great and unsolved mystery, delving into living and dying, despair, love, poverty, and the changing nature of existence. To this hidden gem of world literature George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz add a helpful appendix, an annotated bibliography, and an excellent introduction describing the work and placing it in its social and historical context.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023151252X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru. This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries CE in old Tamil—the literary language of ancient Tamilnadu—was composed before Aryan influence had penetrated the south. It is thus a unique testament to pre-Aryan India. Beyond its importance for understanding the development of South Asia's history, culture, religion, and linguistics, the Purananuru is a great work of literature, reflecting accurately and profoundly the life of southern India 2,000 years ago. One of the few works of classical India that confronts life without the insulation of a philosophical facade and that makes no basic assumptions about karma and the afterlife, the Purananuru has universal appeal. It faces the world as a great and unsolved mystery, delving into living and dying, despair, love, poverty, and the changing nature of existence. To this hidden gem of world literature George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz add a helpful appendix, an annotated bibliography, and an excellent introduction describing the work and placing it in its social and historical context.