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Vedanta and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Indian Poetry
- Author(s):
- Subhasis Chattopadhyay (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- Indian literature, Poetics
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- Bashabi Fraser, Indian English Poetry, Scottish Poetry, Tagore, Tagore Studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6QT19
- Abstract:
- Bashabi Fraser is known the world over as a Scottish-Bengali aka diasporic writer. Further she has also been slotted as a feminist scholar with a huge corpus on Tagore. This essay proves the fallacy of such pigeon-holeing of Fraser and shows that she is as mainstream as Yeats and even before that, like unto Blake. The essay also makes a point for rejecting every other mode of poetry except the Romantic mode. It established the Vedantic nature of the poetic genius. The endnotes are copious and comment on how/why/(what of) Fraser should compulsory reading at which age. The essay speaks at length on the nature of poetry. It stresses the value of Vedanta in assessing true poetry written even in English. This essay is also valuable since it has within it acute observations on Fraser as a Tagore scholar.
- Notes:
- Bashabi Fraser is known the world over as a Scottish-Bengali aka diasporic writer. Further she has also been slotted as a feminist scholar. This essay proves the fallacy of such pigeon-holeing and proves that she is a mainstream poet. The essay also makes a point for rejecting every other mode of poetry except the Romantic mode. It established the Vedantic nature of the poetic genius. The endnotes are copious and comment on how/why/(what of) Fraser should be compulsory reading at which age.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 month ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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