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Endymion received scathing criticism after its release, [1] and Keats himself noted its diffuse and unappealing style. Keats did not regret writing it, as he likened the process to leaping into the ocean to become more acquainted with his surroundings; in a poem to J. A. Hessey, he expressed that "I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
The Sleep of Endymion by Anne-Louis Girodet (1791), Musée du Louvre, Paris. In Greek mythology, Endymion[a] (/ ɛnˈdɪmiən /; Ancient Greek: Ἐνδυμίων, gen.: Ἐνδυμίωνος) was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis. [1] He was also venerated and said to reside ...
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (/ ˌædoʊˈneɪ.ɪs /) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. [1] The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 ...
Songs of Kabir. Songs of Kabir (New York: MacMillan, 1915) [1] is an anthology of poems by Kabir, a 15th-century Indian spiritual master. It was translated from Hindi to English by Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel Prize-winning author and noted scholar. According to the introduction, by Evelyn Underhill who worked with Tagore on the book, the poems ...
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ ˌkʊbləˈkɑːn /) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium -influenced ...
e. Chaudhary Abdul Hayee Gujjar (8 March 1921 – 25 October 1980), popularly known by his pen name (takhallus) Sahir Ludhianvi, was an Indian poet who wrote primarily in Urdu in addition to Hindi. [1] He is regarded as one of the greatest film lyricist and poets of 20th century India. [2][3]
81-216-0125-8. Followed by. Madhubala. Madhushala (Hindi: मधुशाला) (The Tavern/The House of Wine) is a book of 135 "quatrains": verses of four lines (Ruba'i) by Hindi poet and writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907–2003). The highly metaphorical work is still celebrated for its deeply Vedantic and Sufi incantations and ...
Arjuna fights with the Kirata-Shiva. The Kirātārjunīya predominantly features the Vīra rasa, or the mood of valour. [3] [4] It expands upon a minor episode in the Vana Parva ("Book of the Forest") of the Mahabharata: While the Pandavas are exiled in the forest, Draupadi and Bhima incite Yudhishthira to declare war with the Kauravas, while he does not relent.