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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 ...
A 17th-century English Baroque school using extended conceit, often (though not always) about religion [18] [19] John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell: Cavalier Poets: 17th-century English Baroque royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson) [20] Richard Lovelace, William Davenant: Euphuism
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Kālidāsa's Abhijñānaśākuntalam was one of the first works of Indian literature to become known in Europe. It was first translated into English and then from English into German, where it was received with wonder and fascination by a group of eminent poets, which included Herder and Goethe. [30]
Chithha (transl. Uncle-Father's younger brother) [a] is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language crime drama film written and directed by S. U. Arun Kumar and produced by Siddharth, who stars in the lead role alongside Nimisha Sajayan (in her Tamil debut), and Anjali Nair in addition to Baby Sahasra Shree and Baby S. Aafiyah Tasneem in the prominent roles.
Masterplots is a reference book series which summarizes the plots of significant works of literature and films. [1] The first edition was published in 1949 by Frank N. Magill of Salem Press. [ 2 ] It remains the flagship product of the publisher.
The Dīpavaṃsa was edited and translated into English by Hermann Oldenberg in 1879. [9] Subsequently, the text was studied by B. C. Law in 1947. [ 10 ] Tilman Frasch has shown that a longer and less corrupt version of the text was maintained in Burma compared to the Sinhalese manuscripts used by Oldenberg for his edition.
Their book, and its companion volume, Understanding Fiction (1943), revolutionized the teaching of literature in the universities and spawned a host of imitators who dominated English departments well into the 1960s." [2] Even those who are highly critical of the textbook's approach to poetry have acknowledged the reach and influence of the volume.