The Works of Sir William Jones by Jones, William; Teignmouth, Lord;

With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society; Volume 6;

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Edition number and title Volume 6
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication 28 March 2013

ISBN 9781108055734
Binding Paperback
No. of pages446 pages
Size 216x140x25 mm
Weight 560 g
Language English
Illustrations 4 b/w illus.

Short description:

The complete thirteen-volume works, with memoir, of the orientalist and poet Sir William Jones (1746-94), first published in 1807.

Long description:

A renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746-94) was a lawyer, translator and poet who wrote authoritatively on politics, comparative linguistics and oriental literature. Known initially for his Persian translations and political radicalism, Jones became further celebrated for his study and translation of ancient Sanskrit texts following his appointment to the supreme court in Calcutta in 1783. He spent the next eleven years introducing Europe to the mysticism and rationality of Hinduism through works such as his nine 'Hymns' to Hindu deities and his translation of the Sanskrit classic Sacontal&&&225;. Volume 6 of his thirteen-volume works, published in 1807, contains Jones' Poeseos Asiaticae Commentariorum (1774). A work of comparative literature after mentor Robert Lowth's De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum (1753) - in which Lowth established the Old Testament as a masterpiece of oriental literature - Poeseos provides detailed Latin commentary on the language and techniques of Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish poetry.