Translations of classical texts about Siva:
Poems to Siva : The Hymns of the Tamil Saints
(Tevaram, Princeton Library of Asian Translations)
by Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Format: Hardcover, 368pp.
ISBN: 0691067678
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pub. Date: May 1989
Comment: Translation of some of the songs of Medieval Tamil poets.
Speaking of Siva
by A. K. Ramanujan (Compiler), Thomas Wyatt
Format: Paperback, 208pp.
ISBN: 0140442707
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Pub. Date: October 1985
Comment: Poems by the Lingayat saints: a favorite of mine! I especially enjoy the passion of Mahadevi's verses.
Meditations on Shiva : The Shivastotravali of Utpaldeva
by Constantina Rhodes Bailly (Translator)
Format: Paperback, 133pp.
ISBN: 0791425304
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Pub. Date: November 1994
Comment: This book is a version of beautiful poems from the highly mystic Kashmiri poet.
About Siva's dance:
The Dance of Siva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture
by Ananda Coomaraswamy Foreword by Romain Rolland
Format: Paperback, 139pp.
ISBN: 0486248178
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Pub. Date: March 1985
The Dance of Siva : Religion, Art and Poetry in South India
(Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, No 7)
by David Smith
Format: Hardcover, 313pp.
ISBN: 0521482348
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: July 1996
The Home of Dancing Sivan : The Traditions of the Hindu Temple in Citamparam
by Paul Younger
Format: Paperback, 272pp.
ISBN: 0195095332
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date: September 1995
Siva in Dance, Myth and Iconography
by Anne Marie Gaston
Format: Hardcover, 254pp.
ISBN: 0195613546
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date: July 1983
Studies on Siva and ecstasy:
Siva, the Erotic Ascetic
by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Format:Textbook Paperback, 386pp.
ISBN: 0195202503
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date: May 1981
Gods of Love and Ecstasy : The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus
by Alain Danielou
Format:Paperback, 250pp.
ISBN: 0892813741
Publisher: Inner Traditions International, Limited
Pub. Date: January 1994
Other studies on Saivism and Siva:
God Inside-Out : Siva's Game of Dice
by Don Handelman, David Shulman
Format:Hardcover, 232pp.
ISBN: 0195108442
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date: April 1997
Parvatidarpana: An Exposition of Kasmir Saivism through the Images of Siva and Parvati
by Harsha V. Dehejia
Format:Hardcover
ISBN: 8120814835
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Pub. Date: January 1999
The Concept of Rudra-Siva Through the Ages
by Mahadev Chakravarzy
Ritual in an Oscillating Universe : Worshipping Siva in Medieval India
by Richard H. Davis