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Rama and Sita in one of the many versions
of the Ramayana (this one Burmese) as
suggested by A. K. Ramanujan's
essay "Three Hundred Ramayanas" |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Sully Prudhomme (1839; died September 6, 1907) French poet and essayist. "The Broken vase" is representative; he was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1901).
A. K. Ramanujan (1929; died July 13, 1993) Indian poet and critic who wrote the controversial essay "Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation"; remembered for
Collected Poems
Died on this day:
Aubrey Beardsley (1898; born August 21, 1872) English illustrator and essayist; illustrations for
Salome;
Lysistrata;
Morte d'Arthur;
Volpone; essays in
Under the Hill
Bonus Classic:
The Secret History of the Mongols (after 1227) a Mongolian account of the life of Genghis Khan
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