Sources of readings for ASIAN 224 "Traditions of Poetry in India"

Hart, George L. 1975. The Poems of Ancient Tamil: Their Milieu and their Sanskrit Counterparts. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hart, George L. 1979. Poets of the Tamil Anthologies: Ancient Poems of Love and War. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ingalls, Daniel H.H. 1968. Sanskrit Poetry from Vidya:kara's Treasury. Cambridge: Belknap.
Kanda, K.C. 1992. Masterpieces of the Urdu Ghazal. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers.
O'Flaherty, W.D. 1994. The Rig Veda. New Delhi: Penguin Classics.
Ramanujan, A.K. 1993. Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Namm!uv!u New Delhi: Penguin.
Ramanujan, A.K. 1973. Speaking of Shiva. Baltimore: Penguin Books.
Ramanujan, A.K. 1967. Interior Landscape, Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Russel, Ralph, and Khurshidul Islam. 1968. Three Mughal Poets: Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan. Cambridge University Press.
Zide, Arlene R.K. 1993. In their own Voice. New Delhi: Penguin.
Ramanujan, A.K. 1967. Interior Landscape, Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Russel, Ralph, and Khurshidul Islam. 1968. Three Mughal Poets: Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan. Cambridge University Press.
Hawley, John S., and M. Juergensmeyer. Songs of the Saints of India. Oxford Univ Press.
Mehrotra, Arvind K. 1991. The Absent Traveller: Pr!urit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptashati of Satavahana Hala. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal.
Ramanujan, A.K., V.N. Rao, and D. Shulman. 1994. When God is a Customer. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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