Thamizh Pulavargalum Cheyyulgalum: Idaikaala Samaya Thodarpu Muthal Puththulaga Kaala Samooga Ilakkiyam Varai

This book explains the development of Tamil poets and poems from medieval religious relations to the social literature of the New World period. It describes the literary form of Tamil Purana poetry, Saiva and Vaishnava identities, the expansion, function and spread of Tamil Thalapurana poems in the 16th-19th centuries, the changes in the formative elements of poets, kings and Tamil social poems. It clearly and comprehensively sheds light on the poems written by Jesuits, Lutherans and Christian poets from 1715 to 1900, and their printing in Tamil from manuscripts. Through documentary evidence, this book announces new dimensions of the history of Tamil poetry.