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In Praise of Krishna

Songs from the Bengali

Denise Levertov author Edward C Dimock author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:1st Aug '81

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Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic religious movement that swept across most of northern and eastern India in the period from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the powerful and moving lyrics collected and elegantly translated here depict the love of Radha for the god Krishna—a love whose intensity and range of emotions trace the course of all true love between man and woman and between man and God. Intermingling physical and metaphysical imagery, the spiritual yearning for the divine is articulated in the passionate language of intense sensual desire for an irresistible but ultimately unpossessable lover, thus touching a resonant chord in our humanity.

ISBN: 9780226152318

Dimensions: 21mm x 13mm x 1mm

Weight: 142g

118 pages