tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post3749798973064449083..comments2024-02-22T15:48:50.427-08:00Comments on Poems and Poetics: Outsider Poems, A Mini-Anthology in Progress (4): Bhakti Poems by Lal DedJerome Rothenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166931849293504537noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-83113780709055584382009-08-04T05:28:51.579-07:002009-08-04T05:28:51.579-07:00a bit discouraging that Schelling's historical...a bit discouraging that Schelling's historical material is not more critical... dates he gives for Tamil material are the dates for compilation of anthologies, but poets anthologized lived as much as 3 centuries earlier... also, there is a long-standing trope that makes bhakti something of a protest movement modeled on English Romantics... we don't really have the historical material to suggest this--at least not with respect to pre-Muslim era.<br /> I know this he writes for a general audience, but I wonder if this has to mean reiterating sensationalist positioning--even when done by contemporary Indian critics weaving their own geneologies.<br /><br />David NeedDavid Needhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417756356202264030noreply@blogger.com