CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature and Linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago. Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, Linguist, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ramanujan wrote in both English and Kannada, and his poetry is known for its thematic and formal engagement with modernist transnationalism. Issues such as hybridity and transculturation figure prominently in such collections as Second Sight (1986), Selected Poems (1976), and The Striders (1966).

Detailed explanation-3: -A. K. Ramanujan grew fond of writing short poems particularly in his later phase. After having translated the classical Tamil and Kannada verses his poetic style became terse and precise, almost aphoristic.

Detailed explanation-4: -A. K. Ramanujan was a poet and translator who studied linguistics, mythology, folklore, poetics, and South Indian and English literatures. In his essays, poetry, translations, and teaching, his aim was to enhance communication among the speakers of Tamil, Kannada, and English languages.

Detailed explanation-5: -RAMANUJAN’S CONCEPTION OF TRANSLATION In his published work Ramanujan reflected on translation most often in the context of poetry, and conceived of it as a multi-dimensional process in which the translator has to deal with his or her material, means, resources and objectives at several levels simultaneously.