A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, Termed Shen-Tamil: To Which Is Added, an Introduction to Tamil Poetry

by Costantino Giuseppe Beschi

Book Overview

Published in 1822, but completed in manuscript form almost 100 years earlier, this work was designed to accompany Beschi's earlier Grammar of Common Tamil. While the latter enabled the student to speak the language, this reissue offers a way into reading Tamil's classical literature with its complexity of thought and technique. One of the earliest and most distinguished pioneers in the field of Tamil studies, C. J. Beschi (1680-1747) was a Jesuit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108055117
• ISBN13: 9781108055116
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"