The Memory of Love: Surdas Sings to Krishna

by John Stratton Hawley

Book Overview

No Hindu god is closer to the soul of poetry than Krishna, and in North India no poet ever sang of Krishna more famously than SūrdD =as-or Sūr, for short. He lived in the sixteenth century and became so influential that for centuries afterward aspiring Krishna poets signed their compositions orally with his name.

This book takes us back to the source, offering a selection of Sūrdās's poems that were known and sung in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195373995
• ISBN13: 9780195373998
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"