A K Ramanujam
TERM PAPER
HUL 240
POETRY BY SHRI A.K. RAMANUJAN
SUBMITTED BY:
ABHISHEK CHHABRA
2005ME20557
A.K Ramanujan
A.K. RAMANUJAN was born in Mysore in 1929 and educated at the local Maharaja 's College. He began his career as a lecturer in English in Quilon and later worked in Belgaum and Baroda before migrating to Chicago in 1962. He was a Fulbright scholar at Indiana University and later moved on to Chicago University where he is now Professor of Dravidian Studies in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Ramanujan 's first collection of poems The Striders appeared in 1966. In 1969 he won the gold medal of the Tamil Writers* Association for his translation of the classical Tamil anthology Kurunihohai into English under the title The Interior Landscape. Relations appeared in 1971. His next book, Speaking of Siva* translations from medieval
Kannada literature* was given the National Book Award in 1974. Ramanujan 's other important publications are The Literature of India; An Introduction (1975) and Selected Poems (1976).
Ramanujan 's poetry is an amalgam of Indian and American experiences. Its origin is *recollected personal emotion*. He draws upon our cultural traditions and the ethos of the orthodox Hindu family life. The major theme in his poetry is a pensive obsession with the familial and racial reminiscences. Even ordinary incidents and experiences seem to provide him with new insights enabling his memory to travel back nostalgically into the happenings of two or three generations.
His favourite disciplines linguistics and anthropology gave him the 'outer forms linguistic, metrical, logical and other such ways of shaping experience*. Ramanujan has drawn effectively on the folklore tradition and each poem presents a kaleidoscopic view of the colour patterns of existence. Passion and reason characterise his poetry suggesting a desperate need for
HUL 240
POETRY BY SHRI A.K. RAMANUJAN
SUBMITTED BY:
ABHISHEK CHHABRA
2005ME20557
A.K Ramanujan
A.K. RAMANUJAN was born in Mysore in 1929 and educated at the local Maharaja 's College. He began his career as a lecturer in English in Quilon and later worked in Belgaum and Baroda before migrating to Chicago in 1962. He was a Fulbright scholar at Indiana University and later moved on to Chicago University where he is now Professor of Dravidian Studies in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Ramanujan 's first collection of poems The Striders appeared in 1966. In 1969 he won the gold medal of the Tamil Writers* Association for his translation of the classical Tamil anthology Kurunihohai into English under the title The Interior Landscape. Relations appeared in 1971. His next book, Speaking of Siva* translations from medieval
Kannada literature* was given the National Book Award in 1974. Ramanujan 's other important publications are The Literature of India; An Introduction (1975) and Selected Poems (1976).
Ramanujan 's poetry is an amalgam of Indian and American experiences. Its origin is *recollected personal emotion*. He draws upon our cultural traditions and the ethos of the orthodox Hindu family life. The major theme in his poetry is a pensive obsession with the familial and racial reminiscences. Even ordinary incidents and experiences seem to provide him with new insights enabling his memory to travel back nostalgically into the happenings of two or three generations.
His favourite disciplines linguistics and anthropology gave him the 'outer forms linguistic, metrical, logical and other such ways of shaping experience*. Ramanujan has drawn effectively on the folklore tradition and each poem presents a kaleidoscopic view of the colour patterns of existence. Passion and reason characterise his poetry suggesting a desperate need for
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