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The Purananuru (Tamil: புறநானூறு, Puṟanāṉūṟu, literally "four hundred [poems] in the genre puram"), sometimes called Puram or Purappattu, is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the last of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. [1] It is a collection of 400 heroic poems about kings ...
"In The Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a poem by Indian Romanticism and Lyric poet Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). The work was composed and published in her anthology The Bird of Time (1912)—which included "Bangle-sellers" and "The Bird of Time", it is Naidu's second publication and most strongly nationalist book of poems, published from both London and New York City.
The praise poetry (dithoko) is not a musical form but, it is incorporated in most Sesotho songs. [ 2 ] Praise poetry is highly developed Sotho oral literature and plays a significant role in the study and recording of history as it contains a large amount of information about past significant people and events.
Because of the variety of performance modes, oríkì defies classification as music or poetry, and it has been studied from both perspectives. Historically, oríkì was delivered by a specialist in a particular vocal style. [4] For example, ìjálá is acoustically open and intense, while ewì is spoken in a high-falsetto, wailing voice quality ...
— Letter to Indira Devi. The youngest of 13 surviving children, Tagore (nicknamed "Rabi") was born on 7 May 1861 in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta, the son of Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875). [b] Tagore and his wife Mrinalini Devi, 1883 Tagore was raised mostly by servants; his mother had died in his early childhood and his father travelled widely. The ...
English writer of Bengal stories and autobiography Razia Khan (1936–2011) Poetry collections Argus Under Anaesthesia (1976) and Cruel April (1977) Farida Majid: Anthology of English poems Thursday Evening Anthology (1977) Kaiser Haq: Black Orchid (1996), and In the Streets of Dhaka: Collected poems (1966—2006). Feroz Ahmed-ud-din: Handful ...
Both in composition and in publication, the poem had a chequered history. In its canonical form, it is composed of 419 lines of heroic couplets . [ 4 ] The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot is notable as the source of the phrase " damn with faint praise ," which has subsequently seen so much common usage that it has become a cliché or idiom .
Meghadūta (Sanskrit: मेघदूत literally Cloud Messenger) [1] is a lyric poem written by Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE), considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit poets. It describes how a yakṣa (or nature spirit), who had been banished by his master to a remote region for a year, asked a cloud to take a message of love to ...