E. H. Rick Jarow, "The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta" (Oxford UP, 2021)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Dec 23, 2021 · 58m

The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta (Oxford UP, 2021) is a translation and full-length study of the great Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa's famed Meghadūta (literally: "The Cloud Messenger") with a focus on its interfacing of nature, feeling, figurative language, and mythic memory. While the Meghadūta has been translated a number of times, the last "almost academic" translation was published in 1976 (Leonard Nathan, The Transport of Love: The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa). This volume, however, is more than an Indological translation. It is a study of the…