Selection of Contemporary Dogri Poetry

About the Book A Selection of Contemporary Dogri Poetry is a volume which represents a wide variety of poems: right from the first published poem of Dinu Bhai Pant in 1944 to Ved Rahi's which came out in 2003. The approach in this selection as the translator says, is quite different. What are kept in view are a certain standard, poetic merit, imagery, intellectual element and susceptibility to rendition in simple English so that pieces do not look flat in English translation.

The volume shows the development of Dogri Poetry over a period of sixty years from idealism, sentimentalism and romanticism to impressionism and realism; from hesitancy and inhabited expression to more open, frank, uninhabited expression of feelings and emotions and finally from outside view of things to expression on inner tensions.

About the Book Shivanath, born at Jammu in 1925, is a Dogri scholar, writer and a translator. He has more than twenty publications to his credit which include the Sahitya Akademi award winning collection of Dogri essays Chetan Di Chitkabari (2004).

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