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The Works of Sir William Jones - With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth (Paperback)
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The Works of Sir William Jones - With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 5
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A renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746-94) was
a lawyer, translator and poet who wrote authoritatively on
politics, comparative linguistics and oriental literature. Known
initially for his Persian translations and political radicalism,
Jones became further celebrated for his study and translation of
ancient Sanskrit texts following his appointment to the supreme
court in Calcutta in 1783. He spent the next eleven years
introducing Europe to the mysticism and rationality of Hinduism
through works such as his nine 'Hymns' to Hindu deities and his
translation of the Sanskrit classic Sacontala, influencing Romantic
writers from William Blake to August Wilhelm Schlegel. Volume 5 of
his thirteen-volume works, published in 1807, contains Jones'
researches into Indian botany - including the comparative
'Botanical Observations on Select Indian Plants' - coupled with his
groundbreaking Grammar of the Persian Language (1771), the work
which established Jones as one of the eighteenth century's greatest
orientalists.
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