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    K.V. Dominic Criticism and Commentary: Essential Readings Companion
    K.V. Dominic Criticism and Commentary: Essential Readings Companion
    K.V. Dominic Criticism and Commentary: Essential Readings Companion
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    K.V. Dominic Criticism and Commentary: Essential Readings Companion

    By Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

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    Peek inside the mind one of Contemporary India's most influential poets
    Inside this book you'll find Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya, one of the most erudite philosopher-critics of India, brilliantly evaluating his compatriot English poet K.V. Dominic. Among the contemporary English poets of India, Dr. K.V. Dominic has established an unchallengeable position of his own. Through his poetry collections Winged Reason, Write Son, Write, Multicultural Symphony, Contemporary Concerns and Beyond, and K.V. Dominic: Essential Readings and Study Guide, Dominic has beautifully portrayed themes of environmental, social, political, and humanitarian concerns.
    Mukhopadhyaya, with his unique style, critically and philosophically studies not only Dominic's poetry, but also the poet himself as a person with his background of family, town, state, and country. Being a master of Indian as well as western philosophy, Mukhopadhyaya digs out the philosophic thoughts lying hidden in many of the poems. In addition, his depth in English and Sanskrit literature has enabled him to make comparisons of Dominic's poems to those of the legends.
    "Dominic's poetry reflects India. This is the base of the study by Mukhopadhyaya who has taught literature and authored books. He finds Dominic's poetry irresistible. I add that Mukhopadyaya's book is enlightening and also irresistible. His study is a compassionate painting of Dominic's poetry with the shades that are eternal."
    --Dr. Stephen Gill, Canadian poet and novelist
    "Dr. Mukhopadhyaya's critique is a remarkable contribution to Dominic's poetry, as it is systematically written with philosophical explications and comparisons to great legends as well as classical poets of the East and the West. Indeed an important addition to the existing works on this major literary figure."
    --Dr. Rob Harle, Australian poet, author and artist
    "More than merely an analysis of Dominic's poems, this book is an insight into the vibrant philosophy experienced by the Indian mind that has amalgamated both the perennial bliss and the painful vicissitudes of life to foster sublime and universal notions of life. As the volume reveals the personality of the poet, it invites attention to the authenticity of the impersonal theory of poetry."
    --Dr. S. Kumaran, Indian critic, scholar and academician, author of Philosophical Musings for a Meaningful Life: An Analysis of K.V. Dominic's Poems
    From Modern History Press

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherModern History Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2017
    ISBN9781615993567
    K.V. Dominic Criticism and Commentary: Essential Readings Companion

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      K.V. Dominic Criticism and Commentary - Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

      Chapter 1 - About the Poet and his Background

      It is said that the history plays of Shakespeare help one to better understand the history of England than volumes on British History. And it is better to read the poems composed by K. V. Dominic to understand India of our times than perusing volumes on Indian economics, Indian politics and Indian society of today. This is not all. Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life. If this be true, then Dominic has no peer in the context of Indian English literature. In order that searching criticism could be done, there must be a high moral standard in the light of which the criticism would be possible. Dominic’s poetry, unlike much of our poetry today, speaks of high moral values that are at the core Indian and that could be emulated by other cultures also. Moral values, in order to be practicable, need a grasp on the economic, political and social condition of the society under study. It also needs a comprehensive grasp on the philosophy, on the background of which the socially aware poetry could be

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