The Birth of the War-God KALIDASA

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KALIDASA - «The Birth of the War-God»

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Of the history of Kalidasa, to whom by general assent the Kumara Sambhava, or Birth of the War-God, is attributed, we know but little with any certainty; we can only gather from a memorial-verse which enumerates their names, that he was one of the "Nine Precious Stones" that shone at the Court of Vikramaditya, King of Oujein, in the half century immediately preceding the Christian era. As the examination of arguments for and against the correctness of this date is not likely to interest general readers, I must request them to rest satisfied with the belief that about the time when Virgil and Horace were shedding an undying lustre upon the reign of Augustus, our poet Kalidasa lived, loved, and sang, giving and taking honour, at the polished court of the no less munificent patron of Sanskrit literature, at the period of its highest perfection. Little as we know of Indian poetry, here and there an English reader may be found, who is not entirely unacquainted with the name or works of the author of the beautiful dramas of Sakontala and The Hero and the Nymph, the former of which has long enjoyed an European celebrity in the translation of Sir William Jones, and the latter is one of the most charming of Professor Wilson"s specimens of the Hindu Theatre; here and there even in England may be found a lover of the graceful, tender, picturesque, and fanciful, who knows something, and would gladly know more, of the sweet poet of the Cloud Messenger, and The Seasons; whilst in Germany he has been deeply studied in the original, and enthusiastically admired in translation,-not the Orientalist merely, but the poet, the critic, the natural philosopher,-a Goethe, a Schlegel, a Humboldt, having agreed, on account of his tenderness of feeling and his rich creative imagination, to set Kalidasa very high among the glorious company of the Sons of Song. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Birth of the War-God (KALIDASA)

Полное название книги KALIDASA The Birth of the War-God
Автор KALIDASA
Ключевые слова поэзия
Категории Художественная литература, Книги на иностранных языках
ISBN 9781612030289
Издательство Книга по Требованию
Год 2010
Название транслитом the-birth-of-the-war-god-kalidasa
Название с ошибочной раскладкой the birth of the war-god kalidasa