In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali - Softcover

Dimock, Edward C.; Levertov, Denise

 
9780226152318: In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226152316 ISBN 13: 9780226152318
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1981

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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.

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Edward C. Dimock, Jr., is Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

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'It is man's nature to long for that which is most beautiful: the gentlest of sound, the most radiant color, the sweetest scent, his whole body for that which is most tender and full of grace. The sound of Krishna's flute is gentlest. His body, glowing like a blue jewel, is most radiant. His scent is sweetest. And the grace of his posture and the tenderness of his love are the most soothing, and most exciting, to the heart which yearns.' -From the introduction by Edward C. Dimock, Jr.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1981
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226152316
ISBN 13 
9780226152318
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
118
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