"An excellent and important addition to the scholarship on South
Indian religious literature. Hopkins is eminently succesful in
raising broad issues that are of interest to students of poetry,
religion, and history at the same time that he renders a particular
South Indian intellectual and his world interesting and fully
accessibleto the nonspecialist. Hopkins has captured the beauty and
emotional power of De'sika's poetry in three languages, making
Singing
the Body of God yet another link in the chain of "texts of
enjoyment." --History of Religions
"A significant contribution to the study of pre-modern South Indian
literary and devotional cultures. ...Perhaps the best part of
Singing the Body of God--certainly the foundation of the fine and
persuasive analysis offered here--are the beautiful translations of
Vedantadesika's poetic work, artful renderings in eminently
readable and even poetic American English that set a high standard
for all future scholarship in the field. ...A significant work
that challenges current scholarly models of bhakti, language,
choice, and literary cultures in pre-modern South Asia." --Journal
of the American Oriental Society
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