Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru (Translations from the Asian Classics)

Interesting. I think if I were to read through more of this, or even just read it all, with an in class situation instead of an online class I would have enjoyed it better. In class would have made discussion better; quicker responses and interaction more appealing.

The translations are wonderful. Evocative and accessible. The source material is hard to find in English, and the translator did a noble job of being true to the originals and still making them feel like poems.

For a review, see Herman Tieken, "On a Recent Translation of Classical Tamil Love Poetry", Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques LXVI/3, 2012, pp. 811-832.