Malayan Literature: Comprising Romantic Tales, Epic Poetry and Royal Chronicles
Chauncey C. Starkweather
Malayan Literature: Comprising Romantic Tales, Epic Poetry and Royal Chronicles
Chauncey C. Starkweather · English
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Malayan Literature: Comprising Romantic Tales, Epic Poetry and Royal Chronicles
Chauncey C. Starkweather · English
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SPECIAL INTRODUCTION Easily the most charming poem of Malayan Literature is the Epic of Bidasari. It has all the absorbing fascination of a fairy tale. We are led into the dreamy atmosphere of haunted palace and beauteous plaisance: we glide in the picturesque imaginings of the oriental poet from the charm of all that is languorously seductive in nature into the shadowy realms of the supernatural. At one moment the sturdy bowman or lithe and agile lancer is before us in hurrying column,
Malayan Literature: Comprising Romantic Tales, Epic Poetry and Royal Chronicles
Chauncey C. Starkweather
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