Category: Volume-2

-21_Rishi Dirghatama

Rishi Dirghatama 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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-22_The Shakespearean Word

The Shakespearean Word The Shakespearean Word   THE Vedic rishi, says the poet, by his poetic power, brings out forms, beautiful forms in the high…

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-23_Two Sonnets of Shakespeare

Two Sonnets of Shakespeare ON the occasion of the 400th birth anniversary of Shakespeare, I present to you today two of the great Shakespearean sonnets….

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-24_Robert Graves

Robert Graves ROBERT GRAVES is not a major poet, and certainly not a great poet. He is a minor poet. But in spite of his…

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-25_Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak Boris Pasternak   THE portrait of the late poet (for he is more of a poet than a novelist, as has been pointed…

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-26_George seferis

George Seftris George Seftris SEFERIS is a poet of sighs. I do not know the cadence, the breath of the original Greek rhythm. But if…

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-27_Jules Supervielle

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-28_Two mystic Poems in modern French

Two Mystic Poems in Modern French Two Mystic Poems in Modern French Here is the first poem, I give only the text, followed by an…

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-29_Two Mystic Poem in Modern Bengali

Two Mystic Poems in Modern Bengali Here is the first one as I translate it: BARITONE¹ Let us all move together, one and all, Together…

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-30_Hymn to Darkness

Hymn to Darkness Hymn to Darkness HERE is a modern poem in Bengali. It is characteristically modern, though perhaps not quite modernist. It is an…

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