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Works by the late Horace Hayman Wilson: Essays Analytical, Critical and Philological on Subjects Connected with Sanskrit Literature (Volume II)

Works by the late Horace Hayman Wilson: Essays Analytical, Critical and Philological on Subjects Connected with Sanskrit Literature (Volume II)

H. Wilson, H.

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Literary CriticismWriting InstructionIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 9353706483
ISBN13: 9789353706487
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Enter the workshop of early Sanskrit scholarship, where language and literature are tested line by line. It rewards slow, attentive reading. This second volume of the late Horace Hayman Wilson's essays brings together a complete essays collection of analytical, critical and philological writing, shaped by a translator's ear and a historian's discipline. Each piece stands alone yet builds a larger argument, tracking shifts in meaning, transmission, and method, and modelling how to weigh evidence when authorities conflict in print. Across Sanskrit literature studies, Wilson moves from problems of interpretation to questions of method, offering an absorbing philological studies anthology for anyone who wants to see how classical Indian texts were first mapped for English readers. Written at the height of 19th century scholarship, these pages show Indian philology scholarship in motion: academic literary criticism that treats Sanskrit not as an exotic curiosity, but as a living archive of ideas. For students, it remains a dependable Sanskrit study reference and an indology research source; for general readers, it opens a clear window onto ancient India literature and the intellectual world that engaged it. Collectors of orientalist studies classics will recognise Wilson as a cornerstone figure, working in the same broad tradition later associated with Max Muller indology, and helping to set standards still felt in modern Indology. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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