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Can I read Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru (Translations from the Asian Classics) on EtoBox?
Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru (Translations from the Asian Classics) by and edited by Martha Ann Selby is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru (Translations from the Asian Classics) about?
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry and known to be a work of enduring importance. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology renders the five landscapes of reciprocal love distinctive to the genre: jealous quarreling, anxious waiting and lamentation, clandestine love before marriage, elopement and love in separation, and patient waiting after
Who reads Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru (Translations from the Asian Classics)?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- and edited by Martha Ann Selby
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231150644
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25