Edward Jewitt Robinson
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Edward Jewitt Robinson was a 19th-century
Biography
Edward Jewitt Robinson published a collection of
Robinson, like other earlier missionaries, translated only the first (Aram) and second books (Porul) of the Kural text, translating 108 chapters in verse. He did not translate the third book (Inbam). His English contemporaries greatly praised his verse translation, although native scholars of later years, such as T. P. Meenakshisundaram, had some reservations about its fidelity to the original.[2]
Since this work was sent to the press, I have seen a charming little volume entitled, Tales and Poems of South India, from the Tamil, by Rev. E. J. Robinson (T. Woolmer, 1885). Had I known of this earlier, I should have felt it less necessary to publish a translation.
See also
References
- ^ Edward Jewitt Robinson (1873). Tamil Wisdom; Traditions Concerning Hindu Sages, and Selections from their writings. London: Wesleyan Conference Office.
- ^ Pope, George Uglow (1886). The Sacred Kurral of Tiruvalluva Nayanar (with Latin Translation By Fr. Costantino Giuseppe Beschi) (PDF). London: W H Allen & Co. p. iii.
