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-001_A Vedic Story

-001_A Vedic Story.htm A VEDIC STORY (RlGVEDA – X. 51.) The gods are in a great fix. Where is Agni? How is it that the…

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-002_Rishi Dirghatama

-002_Rishi Dirghatma.htm RISHI DIRGHATAMA Many of the Upanishadic rishis are familiar to you. Vedic rishis are perhaps not so. Today I will speak of one…

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-003_The Shakespearean Word

-003_The Shakespearean Word.htm THE SHAKESPEAREAN WORD The Vedic rishi, says the poet, by his poetic power, brings out forms, beautiful forms in the high heaven….

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-004_Two Sonnets of Shakespeare

-004_Two Sonnets of Shakespeare.htm TWO SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE On the occasion of the 400th birth anniversary of Shakespeare, I present to you today two of…

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-005_Robert Graves

-005_Robert Graves.htm ROBERT GRAVES Robert Graves is not a major poet, and certainly not a great poet. He is a minor poet. But in spite…

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-006_Boris Pasternak

-006_Boris Pasternak.htm BORIS PASTERNAK The portrait of the late poet (for he is more of a poet than a novelist, as has been pointed out)…

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-007_George Seferis

-007_George Seferis.htm GEORGE SEFERIS Poet and essayist in modem Greek. Translated poems of the English poet, George Eliot, into modern Greek; was in diplomatic service,…

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-008_Jules Supervielle

-008_Jules Supervielle.htm JULES SUPERVIELLE Jules Supervielle is a French poet and a modem French poet. He belongs to this century and died only a few…

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-009_Two Mystic Poems in Modern French

-009_Two Mystic Poems in Modern French.htm TWO MYSTIC POEMS IN MODERN FRENCH Here is the first poem, I give only the text, followed by an…

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-010_Two Mystic Poems in Modern Bengali

-010_Two Mystic Poems in Modern Bengali.htm TWO MYSTIC POEMS IN MODERN BENGALI Here is the first one as I translate it: Baritone1 Let us all…

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