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Sūr Dās, Poet, Singer, Saint

John Stratton Hawley

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Sūr Dās was a blind poet-singer who lived sometime during the sixteenth-century. In this study John Hawley seeks to draw an accurate portrait of the poet by critically examining the many legends that have grown up around his life, and by discriminating between later poems in the Sūr Sagar - the great body of poetry attributed to Sūr - and those that can reasonably be said to come from circles close to the poet himself, if not from his own mouth. The portrait is not only literary but religious, for nearly all of Sūr's poetry is devoted to Krishna.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1985

Sūr Dās, Poet, Singer, Saint

John Stratton Hawley

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Sūr Dās was a blind poet-singer who lived sometime during the sixteenth-century. In this study John Hawley seeks to draw an accurate portrait of the poet by critically examining the many legends that have grown up around his life, and by discriminating between later poems in the Sūr Sagar - the great body of poetry attributed to Sūr - and those that can reasonably be said to come from circles close to the poet himself, if not from his own mouth. The portrait is not only literary but religious, for nearly all of Sūr's poetry is devoted to Krishna.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1985

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