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Sumitranandan Pant (20 May 1900 – 28 December 1977) [1] was an Indian poet. He was one of the most celebrated 20th century poets of the Hindi language and was known for romanticism in his poems which were inspired by nature, people and beauty within.
Neelam Saxena Chandra (born 1969), poet, author, novelist writing in English and Hindi; P. Lal (1929–2010), poet, translator, professor and publisher; founder and publisher of Writers Workshop in Calcutta, India; P C K Prem (born 1945), poet, critic and author writing in Hindi and English
Kālidāsa (Sanskrit: कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. [1] [2] His plays and poetry are primarily based on Hindu Puranas and philosophy. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems and two shorter ...
Sri Aurobindo composed his poem over a long period of time. At first he worked on the narrative of Savitri as such, with the first manuscript dating back to 1916. Around 1930 he began turning it into an epic with a larger scope and deeper meaning. It now became his major literary work and he continued to expand and perfect it until his last days.
Bhagwan Datt Sharma (born 1935), poet and scholar of post-WWII Hindi and English Poetry; Bhai (writer) (1935-2018), Surinamese poet; Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850–1885), novelist, poet, playwright; Bhawani Prasad Mishra (1913–1985), poet and author; Bhikhari Das (1721-1799) Bhupendra Nath Kaushik (1924-2007), Hindi and Urdu poet, writer ...
While the poems are basically love poems their natural setting includes references to a number of plant and animal species. Some plant species such as Ricinus communis and Pandanus are mentioned just once. Others, for example, mango(17) and lotus (49) are mentioned in several poems. Altogether 170 poems mention plant species.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz [a] MBE NI (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) [2] was a Pakistani poet and author of Punjabi and Urdu literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated, popular, and influential Urdu writers of his time, and his works and ideas remain widely influential in Pakistan and beyond. [3]
This work is the development of an episode in Markandeya-purana relating to the birth of Svarochisha-manu, who is one of the fourteen Manus. Pravara, a pious Brahmin youth. goes to the Himalayas for sightseeing. In the Himalayas, a Gandharva woman called Varudhini falls in love with him, but Pravara rejects her love as he is already married ...