A Tamil Poetical Anthology, With Grammatical Notes And A Vocabulary - HARDCOVER

About the Book:-To those who have studied the Tamil Hand-Book, this work is recommended as a fitting introduction to the higher dialect of Tamil. Nothing like the moral verses of the Tamil poets are to be found in the cognate languages of South India. They are the result of Budhistic influences. In regard to Tiruvalluvar when it is remembered that, according to credible tradition, the author lived in St. Thome, about the time when the first Armenian merchants settled there; that the author was unfettered by caste; and that his chief friend was Elela-singan, a sea-captain, it will not seem improbable that he was indebted to intercourse with the strangers for the ideas of many of his verses. He is strongly opposed to the ordinary method of studying Tamil poetry, with the aid of verbal commentaries; and this compilation is an attempt to introduce a better system. This rare book is a collection of 612 passages from the corpus of Tamil poetry, along with grammatical notes and a vocabulary, and are arranged under various heads like: Learning; Ignorance; Friendship; Business; Prosperity; Hearing; Effort; Forgiving Injuries, etc. This book is in the Tamil language, and was first published in 1859. About the Author :-George Uglow Pope or G.U. Pope was an Anglican Christian missionary and Tamil scholar who spent 40 years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English. His popular translations included those of the Tirukkural and Thiruvasagam. He later took to teaching, running his own school in Ootacamund for while and then moving to head the Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore and after returning to England worked as a Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. A statue on the Chennai beach recognizes him for his contribution to the understanding and promotion of the Tamil language. His first work was A Catechism of Tamil Grammar (1842).