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Contents: Vol. 1: 1. Historical literature. 2. Introduction to the literature of India. 3. The drama (Circa 400-1000 A.D.). 4. The later dramatic literature. 5. Classical dramas of Kalidasa, Harsadeva, Bhavabhuti and Bhatta-Narayana. 6. Dramatic poetry. 7. Gadyakavya (Romance). 8. Kalidasa and the Guptas. Vol. 2: 9. The great romances. 10. The Prakrit dialects employed in the dramas. 11. The Harivamsa, an appendix to the Mahabharata. 12. Bhaja Govindam of Sri Shankaracharya. 13. Anthologies. 14. The ornate court epic. 15. Historical Kavya. 16. Ornate fiction. 17. Fairy tales and fables (Circa 400-1100 A.D.). 18. Lyric poetry (Circa A.D. 400-1100). 19. Gnomic and didactic poetry. 20. Lyric poetry. Vol. 3: 21. Ornate poetry: characteristics. 22. Beginnings of ornate poetry. 23. The most important poets of the later centuries. 24. Lyric poetry and the anthologies. 25. The aims and achievement of Sanskrit poetry. 26. Poetesses. 27. Royal poets. 28. Indian poetic, dramaturgy and prosody. 29. Bhartrhari, Amaru, Bilhana, and Jayadeva. 30. The origin and development of Kavya literature. 31. Bharavi, Bhatti, Kumaradasa, and Magha. 32. Dharmasastra. Vol. 4: 33. Characteristics of the Sanskrit literature. 34. Scientific literature. 35. Laghukavya. 36. Niti. 37. Campu. 38. Sahitya Sastra. 39. Literature of medieval India. "The great classical Indian literature was the result of the experts who were masters of the learning of their day, long trained in the use of language, with the aim to please the learned audience and readership by subtlety, not simplicity of effect. They had at their disposal a singularly beautiful speech, and they commanded elaborate and most effective metres. This literary heritage is clearly the epitome of feeling for life and nature matched with perfection of expression and rhythm. "The credit of translating and presenting this heritage in the English language must be shared by great scholars, such as Sir Williams Jones, H.T. Colebrooke, A. Berriedale Keith, Maurice Winternitz, M. Krishnamachari, A.A. Macdonell, J. Muir etc. the collective outpouring of whom was responsible for the literary and cultural renaissance India witnessed starting from the early 19 century. "This work brings together some of the best writings of these stalwarts." (jacket)

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Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall No Jacket Quarter Leather First Edition Preface by Georges D. Heylli. SEDAINE, MICHEL JEAN (1719-1797), French dramatist, was born at Paris on the 4th of July 1719. His father, who was an architect, died when Sedaine was quite young, leaving no fortune, and the boy began life as a masons labourer. He was at last taken as pupil by an architect whose kindness he eventually repaid by the help he was able to give to his benefactors grandson, the painter David. Meanwhile he had done his best to repair his deficiencies of education, and rn 1750 he published a Recuell de pices fugitives, which included fables, songs and pastorals. His especial talent was, however, for light opera. He produced Le Diable d quatre (1756), the music being by several composers; Blaise le Savetier (1759), for the music of Danican Philidor; On ne savise jamais de tout (1761) and others with Pierre Alexandre de Monsigny; Aucassin et Nicoletie (1780), Richard Cieur de Lion (1784), and Amphitryon (1788) with Andr Grtry. Sedaines vaudevilles and operettas attracted the attention of Diderot, and two plays of his were accepted and performed at the TheAtre Franais. The first and longest, the Philosophe sans le savoir, was acted in 1765; the second, a lively one-act piece, La Gageure imprevue in 1768. These two at once took their place as stock pieces and are still ranked among the best French plays, each of its class. Except these two pieces little or nothing of his has kept the stage or the shelves, but Sedaine may be regarded as the literary ancestor of Scribe and Dumas. He had the practical knowledge of the theatre, which enabled him to carry out the ideas of Diderot and give him claims to be regarded as the real founder of the domestic drama in France. Sedaine, who became a member of the Academy (1786), and secretary for architectur e of the fine arts division, died at Paris on the 17th of May 1797. He wrote two historical dramas, Raymond V. comic de Toulouse, and MaiUard, ou Paris sauve. French text.