Critical insights into a poetic legacy
Patrick Fernando, a deeply serious poet, and one
committed to the writing of English poetry as a craft, was
well-versed, not only in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome
that he studied as a university undergraduate, but also in the best
poetic writing of the 20th century, which he read for pleasure and
instruction throughout his life. The final stanza of his Elegy for
My Son looks back to Musée des Beaux Arts.
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Encounters
Raymond Williams through Sri Lankan eyes
[Part 5]
In today’s column I wish to examine importance
of Raymond Williams for the new discipline of cultural studies of
which he was an architect. The column will proceed in three parts;
the first will be devoted to a discussion of the field of cultural
studies, the second to an examination of Williams’ contribution to
it,
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Cultural Scene
Rabindranath Tagore:
As a fine artist
In this series on the life and times of
Rabindranath Tagore, in this week’s column, we would explore Tagore
as an artist and how he expressed through the medium. Tagore’s
paintings should be looked at bearing the fact in mind that Tagore
never had a formal education in painting.
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