The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry PDF
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Y , THE OXFORD , Anthology A T MODERN INDIAN ETR PO edited by Vinay Dharwadker and A. K. Ramanujan *orkofits kind, containssomeofthefinestIndianpoetry writteninthetwentiethcentury. Itbrings together125poetsinEnglishandEnglish translationfromfourteenIndianlanguages. Thecollectioncoversseveralgenerationsof writersandmanydifferentschoolsandstyles. Itprovidesanoverviewofthemajorfigures, forms, andmovementsinIndianpoetryinthe lastonehundredyears. Theeditorsemphasizetheimmensevariety inmodernIndianverse. Thepoetsrepresented includeRabindranathTagoreandSubramania Bharatifromtheearlydecadesofthecentury, andNirala, G. ShankaraKurupandKaifiAzmi fromthemid-centuryperiod. Closerhome, the editorspresentSunandaTripathyand AnuradhaMahapatraaswellasSaleem PeeradinaandVikramSeth. Threegenerations ofwomenpoets fromBalamaniAmma, Indira Sant, andAmritaPritamtoRevathiDeviand GaganGillarehighlighted. Theanthologyalso representsthebestworkofnearlyseventy translatorsinIndia, NorthAmerica, Europe €*£> andelsewhere, offeringalargenumberofnew andrevisedtranslationsthatarepublished hereforthefirsttime. Besidesdisplayingthediversityofmodern Indianpoetry, theanthologyrevealsits coherentpatternsanddevelopmentsby arrangingpoetsandpoemsineightthematic sectionswhichexploremanyofthecentral concernsofourtimes;amongothers, loveand desire, kinshipanddomesticity, the imaginationandthecreativeprocess, theplay ofknowledgeandunderstandingaswellasthe interdependenceofhumancultureandthe naturalenvironment. Asthepoemsarticulate thesethemeswithmanyvariations, theyalso explorevirtuallyeverykindofmodernpoetic form, rangingfromthefolksongandtheoral narrativetopost-modernwordgameand surreallyric. Theprefacedefinestheaimsandprinciples oftheselectionandissupplementedbyan informative, wide-rangingcriticalessayonthe literary, historicalandsocialcontextsof modernIndianpoetry. Alsoincludedare textualnotesonthepoems,biographicalnotes backflap t * THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGYOF MODERN INDIAN POETRY t * THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGYOF MODERN INDIAN POETRY edited by VINAY DHARWADKER and RAMANUJAN A.K. DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS 1994 Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Calcutta Cape Town Dares Salaam Delhi Florence HongKong Istanbul Karachi _ ^^ KualaLumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore PK54R1 Taipei Tokyo Toronto .095 andassociatesin 1394 Berlin Ibadan © Oxford UniversityPress 1994 ISBN 19 562865 9 Thepreviouslypublished material included in this anthology is reprinted with thepermission ofthe original copyright holders. A list ofthose who havegrantedpermission is included at the end ofthis book. Typeset by Rastrixi, NewDelhi 110070 Printed in India atRekhaPrintersPut. Ltd., NewDelhi 110020 andpublished by Neil O'Brien, Oxford UniversityPress YMCA Library Building,fai Singh Road, NewDelhi 110001 To the memory of K A. Ramanujan (1929-1993) and forthe otherpoets and translators in this book A poet should learn with his eyes the forms ofleaves he should know how to make people laugh when they are together he should get to see what they are really like he should know about oceans and mountains in themselves and the sun and the moon and the stars his mind should enter into the seasons he should go among many people in many places and learn their languages Kshemendra, Kavikanthabharana , verses 10-11 (12th century); translated from Sanskrit by W.S. Merwin and Mousaieff-Mason J. A cknowledgements We would like to thank the poets and translators in this anthol- ogy for their help in preparing the final versions ofthe poems; and also Aparna Dharwadker, Emily Grosholz, Girish Karnad, and CM. Nairn, for reading earlier drafts and making valuable suggestions. We are particularly grateful to Arlene Zide for col- lecting new material by Indian women poets, and offering us some ofher collaborative translations. We are grateful to theJointCommittee on SouthAsia (Ber- nard S. Cohn, Chairman) ofthe American Council ofLearned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, for timely summer funding; to the DepartmentofSouth Asian Languages and Civilizations (CM. Nairn, Chairman) and the Committee on Social Thought (Paul Wheadey, Chairman), University of Chicago, for providing an ideal environment for the project, and facilities forendless manuscriptpreparation; to the Depart- ment ofEnglish, University ofGeorgia, and the Department of English, University ofOklahoma, for support in the final stages of the work. Thanks finally to James Nye, Bibliographer for South Asia, Regenstein Library, University ofChicago, for help with information on some of the poets; and to Michelle Stie, research assistant, UniversityofOklahoma, forhelpwith corres- pondence and indexing.
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