Into Sūr's Ocean: Poetry, Context, and Commentary

by John Stratton Hawley

Sur's Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition was published in 2015 as the fifth volume of the Murty Classical Library of India. That book contains Kenneth Bryant's critical reconstructions of 433 poems of Surdas that circulated in the sixteenth century, when this great Hindi poet lived, and it includes facing-page, English verse translations by John Stratton Hawley. The name traditionally assigned to these poems is Sursagar, meaning Sur's Ocean . Into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975588
• ISBN13: 9780674975583
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 1050 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.2" x 10.1"