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-08_Bankim – His Versatility.htm

    IV   His Versatility       WHENEVER a literary man gives proof of a high capacity in action people always talk about…

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-09_Bankim – His Literary History.htm

V   His Literary History   BANKIM’S literary activity began for any serious purpose at Khulna, but he had already trifled with poetry in his…

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-10_Bankim – What He did for Bengal.htm

    VI   What He Did for Bengal       I HAVE kept so far to Bankim’s achievement looked at purely as literature….

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-11_Bankim – Our Hope in the Future.htm

    VII   Our Hope in the Future       BUT PROFOUND as have been its effects, this revolution is yet in its…

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-12_On Poetry – Poetry.htm

    On Poetry and Literature      Poetry     Poetry I take to be the measured expression of emotion. Of prose one asks,…

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-13_On Poetry – Characteristics of Augustan Poetry.htm

    Characteristics of Augustan Poetry     Relation of Gray to the poetry of his times   The poetry of Gray marks the transition…

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-14_On Poetry – Sketch of the Progress of Poetry.htm

    Sketch of the Progress of Poetry from Thomson to Wordsworth   The Age of transition from the poetry of Pope to that of…

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-15_On Poetry – Appendix – Test Questions.htm

APPENDIX   Test Questions   The Mediaevalists   1. Describe the nature & influence on English poetry of Percy’s Reliques. 2. Sketch the career of…

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-16_On Poetry – Marginalia on Madhusudan Dutt’s Virangana Kavya.htm

Marginalia   ON MADHUSUDAN DUTT’S VIRANGANA KAVYA   A Virgilian elegance and sweetness and a Virgilian majesty of diction ennoble the finer epistles of these…

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-17_On Poetry – Originality in National Literatures.htm

Originality in National Literatures   It is a singular and as yet unexplained phenomenon in the psychology of mankind that out of so many magnificent…

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