The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems

"Ramanujan's legacy as poet, scholar and essayist is a large one; it is a legacy that will live not only in his books but in the lives he touched as a consummate teacher, as innovative and creative in the classroom as he was on the written page... Students of anthropology, history, and religion no less than those of language and literature were touched by his subtle and creative mind. He was a man of rare gentleness, of a deep and sensitive humanity.... To everyone who knew him and the passionate brilliance of his language, he and his poetry were rather a richly evocative metaphor for the human experience wherever it might be found." --The Independent

"A.K. Ramanujan combines in his approach to the lovely Tamil originals the erudition of the philologist, the linguist's close attention to detail, and the sensitivity of a true original poet. --Kamil Zvelebil, Journal of Asian Studies