P. Lal – Bibliography
POETRY
The Parrot’s Death and other poems (1960);
Love’s the First & other poems (1962);
“Change!” They Said & other poems (1966);
Draupadi and Jayadratha and other poems (1967);
Yakshi from Didarganj and other poems (1969);
The Man of Dharma and the Rasa of Silence (1974);
The Collected Poems of P. Lal (1977);
Calcutta: A Long Poem (1978)
LITERARY CRITICISM / BELLES-LETTERS
The Art of the Essay (1950);
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (1952);
The Concept of an Indian Literature (1968);
Transcreation: Seven Essays (1972);
The Lemon Tree of Modern Sex: Essays (1974);
The Epistles of David-Kaka to Plalm’n (1977);
The Alien Insiders: Indian Writing in English (1987);
Thirty-three Essaettes (1987);
Personalities (1987, 2006);
The Tyranny of Irony (1990);
Indian Influences on English, American & European Literature (2001);
A Tribute to Utpal Dutt (2004);
An Introduction to Vyasa’s Mahabharata (2004);
Views & Reviews: Literary Essays (2005);
Trimurti: Hesse-Nag-Rolland (2005)
TRANSCREATION / TRANSLATION
Premchand’s Godan (1957);
Premchand: His Life and Art (1957);
Great Sanskrit Plays in Modern Translation (1964, 7th ed., 1980);
The Golden Womb of the Sun (1965);
The Bhagavad-Gita (bi-lingual edition) (1965);
Sanskrit Love Lyrics (1966);
Some Sanskrit Poems (1967);
The Dhammapada (1967, 2010);
Jap-Ji (two volumes) (1967);
Isa Upanisad (1967);
The Farce of the Drunk Monk (1968);
Mahanarayana Upanisad (1969);
Avyakta Upanisad (1969);
Mirza Ghalib: Love Poems (1971);
Tagore’s Last Poems (with Shyamasree Devi) (1972);
Where To, Tarapada-babu? (with Shyamasree Devi) (1974);
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad (1974);
The Mahabharata of Vyasa condensed (1980);
The Ramayana of Valmiki condensed (1981);
Kalidasa’s Vikrama & Urvasi (1985);
A Premchand Dozen (with Nandini Nopany) (1986);
Bharatiya Nari: Hindi Women’s Stories (with Nandini Nopany) (1987);
G. D. Birla’s Bapu (1982);
Shivaji Sawant’s The Death Conqueror (with Nandini Nopany) (1989);
The Vedic Hindu Marriage Ceremony (1998);
Kena Upanisad (1998);
Katha Upanisad (1998);
The Mandukya Upanisad (1998);
Mundaka Upanisad (1998);
Paramahamsa Upanisad (1998);
Amrtabindu Upanisad (1998);
Atman Upanisad (1998);
Sarva Upanisad (1998);
Brahman Upanisad (1998);
Aruneyi Upanisad (1998);
Kaivalya Upanisad (1998);
Svetasvatara Upanisad (1998);
Aitareya Upanisad (1998);
Teja-bindu Upanisad (1998);
Prasna Upanisad (1998);
Chandogya Upanisad (2000);
Taittiriya Upanisad (2000);
The Bhagavata Purana (Book X: 2 volumes) (with Nandini Nopany) (1999-2000);
The Complete Mahabharata of Vyasa (17 Volumes) (2005-2010)
ANTHOLOGY
Corylande (poetry, edited with Romen Mookerjee) (1949);
Modern Indo-Anglian Poetry (with K. R. Rao) (1957);
T. S. Eliot : Homage from India (1965);
The First WW Story Anthology (1967);
Modern Indian Poetry in English (1969);
The First WW Literary Reader (1972);
The Second WW Literary Reader (1973);
David McCutchion: Shraddhanjali (1978);
The Xaverian Literary Treasury (3 volumes) (1981);
Vyasa’s Mahabharata: Creative Insights (Volumes 1 & 2) (1992 & 1995);
A Portfolio of Mahabharata Paintings (2001);
Lessons on Lessons (2002);
English Poetry with Indian Influences (2004)
CHILDREN’S STORIES (& I FOR GROWN-UPS)
Stories (1996);
The Saffron Cat (1997);
The Four Riddles (1997);
The Koel & the Cotton Tree (1997);
The Four Sights (1997);
The Magic Mango Tree (1997)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Lessons (1989, 2nd revised and enlarged ed. 2002)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
An Annotated Mahabharata Bibliography (1967)