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Poetry cannot report the event, it must be the event, lived through in a form that can speak about itself while remaining wholly itself.
Balachandra Rajan
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Balachandra Rajan
Born:
1920
Died:
2009
(aged 89)
Bio:
Balachandra Rajan was an Indian diplomat and a scholar of poetry and poetics.
Known for:
Milton and the Climates of Reading (2006)
W.B.Yeats: A Critical Introduction (1965)
The dark dancer (1958)
Too long in the West (1961)
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