Later compilation
Modern critical anthologies
Selecciones críticas modernas
Since the second half of the twentieth century specialists have replaced Tagore's Kabir with versions based on the manuscripts: Charlotte Vaudeville, the great French philologist of Kabir, published *Au cabaret de l'amour* (1959) and *A Weaver Named Kabir* (1993); Vinay Dharwadker, *The Weaver's Songs* (2003); and the poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, *Songs of Kabir* (2011), praised for restoring the fierce, improvisational energy of the originals. They are the recommended editions for reading Kabir in translation.
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Authorship note
Selections translated directly from the three textual traditions (Bijak, Dadupanthi and Sikh), on philological principles; they are not new works by Kabir but editions of his corpus, recorded together for the reader's convenience.
Editions and translations
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English
Songs of Kabir
New York Review Books, 2011
Translation: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
ISBN 9781590173794
NYRB Classics.
The Weaver's Songs
Penguin Books, 2003
Translation: Vinay Dharwadker
ISBN 9780143029687
Penguin Classics.
A Weaver Named Kabir: Selected Verses with a Detailed Biographical and Historical Introduction
Oxford University Press, 1993
Translation: Charlotte Vaudeville
ISBN 9780195630787
Français
Au cabaret de l'amour: paroles de Kabîr
Gallimard / UNESCO, 1986
Translation: Charlotte Vaudeville
ISBN 9782070706334
1.ª ed. 1959 (Connaissance de l'Orient).
Other works by Kabir
Sources
- «Kabir». Wikipedia en inglés (leyendas de nacimiento y persecución según Lorenzen; Dabestan-e Mazaheb; recensiones; crítica de V. C. Mishra, «Two Truths Are Told: Tagore's Kabir», en K. Schomer y W. H. McLeod (eds.), The Sants, 1987, pp. 167–180; Kabir Panth).
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