Classical Tamil Prosody: An Introduction

by Kamil V. Zvelebil

The Author was a Professor of Dravidian Studies at the State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. This book is dedicated to anyone who wants to read classical Tamil poetry and appreciate it more through a basic knowledge of its form. This book offers an introduction to classical Tamil prosody which should be understood and used as a practical handbook. The contents of this book originated from classes given by the Author in German at the University of Heidelberg. The Author's note to "Read as much as possible, alound, and with an attempt to understand the structural properties of Tamil poetry. You will be richly awarded; never forget that Tamil is simultaneously a threefold creation (muttamil): the form, the sound, the performance belong to its body as organically as its basic structural units. Hence prosody has a very special place in this threefold organization." Publisher's This book was first published as a hardbound version in 1989. This e-book version is a scanned version of the physical book pages and may not be user-friendly to read in smaller versions of the Kindle reader such as in an iPhone, although it should be easy to read on a larger device such as an iPad or a Kindle Fire Reader. Feel free to download a sample on your preferred device before you purchase the e-Book.

130 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 3, 2014