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Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation

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Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his ability to make ancient masterpieces thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and create versions that are definitive for our time. His celebrated version of the Tao Te Ching is the most popular edition in print, and his translations of Jesus, Rilke, Genesis, and Job have won the hearts of readers and critics alike. Stephen Mitchell now brings to the Bhagavad Gita his gift for breathing new life into sacred texts.

The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition and has been treasured by American writers from Emerson and Thoreau to T. S. Eliot, who called it the greatest philosophical poem after the Divine Comedy. There have been more than two hundred English translations of the Gita, including many competent literal versions, but not one of them is a superlative literary text in its own right.

Now all that has changed. Stephen Mitchell's Bhagavad Gita sings with the clarity, the vigor, and the intensity of the original Sanskrit. It will, as William Arrowsmith said of Mitchell's translation of The Sonnets to Orpheus, "instantly make every other rendering obsolete."

Book Details

Publisher:
Harmony
ISBN:
9780609810347
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
224
Authors:
Stephen Mitchell
Published Date:
2002-08-27
Language:
English

About Stephen Mitchell

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Stephen Mitchell studied at Amherst College, the University of Paris, and Yale University. He is known for his English versions of canonical texts, including the Tao Te Ching (Harper and Row, 1988), The Book of Job (1987), the Bhagavad Gita (Broadway Books, 2000), and The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1995). His own poetry is collected in Parables and Portraits (1990), and he wrote the verse retelling The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults (1999). He lives in Berkeley, California.

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