{"product_id":"a-season-on-the-earth-selected-poems-of-nirala","title":"A Season on the Earth - Selected Poems of Nirala","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: David Rubin\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 152\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 019 5664019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work of the modern Indian poet Nirala grew out of an early twentieth-century literary revolution as well as a tempestuous personal life.The poems in this volume were selected to represent as fully as possible the wide range and variety of his work. David Rubin’s translation, sensitive to all dimensions of Nirala’s language, allows these poems to speak on their own terms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNirala was easily the most extraordinary figure of the Chhayavad movement, which rejected the Braj traditions and  the flat realism of early writing in khari boli, the new literary medium, crating a genuine renaissance in Hindi literature. A voluminous writer, whose poetry alone runs to eleven volumes, Nirala outgrew the Chhayavad phase to fashion a new poetry employing mystical symbols, an intense awareness of natural forces, and complex emotions. He was ultimately recognized as the finest Hindi poet of his time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the translator’s concluding note a significant reference is made to the art of conveying formal, emotional, and imagistic facets of a poem; if these qualities cannot be recreated, they must be implied. The simple, literal translation will appeal to students and scholars Hindu poetry and literature, as well as to a general readership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the finest pieces of translation from Hindi I have ever seen. Rubin…has the sensibility of a poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Stella Standahl, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of translations by David Rubin is …convincing, excellently judged and eminently successful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-R S MacGregor, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Poetry:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetry and the Poet’s Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore the Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Forest of Panchvati\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Love and Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemembering Saroj\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvening Music\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: The Poetry of Nirala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSources of the Poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"David Rubin \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153736626544,"sku":"7691","price":25.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/7691.jpg?v=1793913375","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/a-season-on-the-earth-selected-poems-of-nirala","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}