"The Cloud of Longing is a translation and full-length study of the great Sanskrit poet K???alid???asa's famed Meghad???uta (literally: "The Cloud Messenger") with a focus on its interfacing of nature, feeling, figurative language, and mythic memory. While the Meghad???uta has been translated a number of times, the last "almost academic" translation was published in 1976 (Leonard Nathan, The Transport of Love: The Meghad???uta of K???alid???asa). This volume, however, is more than an Indological translation. It is a study ...
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"The Cloud of Longing is a translation and full-length study of the great Sanskrit poet K???alid???asa's famed Meghad???uta (literally: "The Cloud Messenger") with a focus on its interfacing of nature, feeling, figurative language, and mythic memory. While the Meghad???uta has been translated a number of times, the last "almost academic" translation was published in 1976 (Leonard Nathan, The Transport of Love: The Meghad???uta of K???alid???asa). This volume, however, is more than an Indological translation. It is a study of the text in light of both classical Indian and contemporary Western literary theory, and it is aimed at lovers of poetry and poetics and students of world literature. It seeks to widen the arena of literary and poetic studies to include classic works of Asian traditions. It also looks at the poem's imaginative portrayals of "nature" and "environment" from perspectives that have rarely been considered"--
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