Poetry –expressions that carry voices beyond borders of nations and histories

Poetry reigns and prospers in a world of its own. Unlike the genre of fiction or drama the licences that poetry is accorded through the trajectory of art and literary developments in cultures of the world, there is probably no creative expression more a ‘mirror of the soul’ when it comes to mediums of ‘literary expression’ than ‘the poem’.

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The relevance and irrelevance of Harold Bloom

Part 6:

Last week I discussed Bloom's book 'Kabbalah and Criticism' and pointed out the general approach to literary exegesis that he advocates could spur us to re-visit our own classical texts with a renewed enthusiasm. In today's column,

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