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The popularity of poetry is gauged in terms of the response that the educated and interested elite give. But the real popularity of poetry is when common people sing it. Popular appeal is not very easy to achieve for any form of poetry; especially when audiences are not kept in mind. Kannada poetry has a few instances of such mass popularity.
Kannada poetry dates back many centuries, to before the time of Adikavi Pampa. A revival took place in the early 20th century led by Kuvempu, Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, B. M. Srikanthaiah and others. The genre was further developed after Indian independence with poets including Gopalakrishna Adiga
It is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Kannada literature and is referred to as the Bhagavad Gita in Kannada. [1] The title of the work can be translated as "Dull Thimma's Rigmarole". [2] [3] Kagga is a collection of 945 poems, each being four lines in length. Some of these poems are written in old Kannada. Kagga poems are profound as well ...
This is a list of available epics in the Kannada language (also called purana, in prose or poem), a South Indian language.Based on his research, the Kannada scholar L.S. Sheshagiri Rao claims that starting with the earliest available epic Adipurana by Pampa (939 C.E), Kannada writers have created a rich and active epic tradition.
Kannada poetry on stone–7th century Kappe Arabhatta inscription The champu Sanskritic metre (poems in verses of various metres interspersed with paragraphs of prose, also known as champu-kavya ) was the most popular written form from the 9th century onwards, although it started to fall into disuse in the 12th century. [ 31 ]
Panje Mangesh Rao (1874–1937) was an Indian writer and poet who wrote short stories, essays, poems and children's rhymes in Kannada.He is known as 'kavishishya'. He wrote Huthariya haadu, Naagara haave, Koti chennaya, Gudugudu Gummata Devaru, Maathaado raamappa.
Poems of G. S. Shivarudrappa; 20th Century Kannada Poetry with an introduction by Nissim Ezekiel; Selected Kannada Short Stories and Jnanapeeth Laureatres of Karnataka (with L. S. Seshagiri Rao) Roots and Wings (Poems of P. Sreenivasa Rao), 2007; Complete works of P. Sreenivasa Rao, 2002; Critical Studies of S. L. Bhyrappa's Works, 2002
These additional chapters, totaling over eight thousand poems, maintain the Bhamini Shatpadi style and were compiled as Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari. The compilation was released in 2002. Rao was honored with the Kannada Sahitya Academy award in 1977–78 for his contribution to the Kannada literature.