'Poetry and Renaissance' is the reprint edition of The Sameeksha Special edition in English on Kumaran Asan, edited by its legendery editor and publisher M Govindan. This volume is a tribute to the poetic magnificence of Asan, and a meditation on the idea of Renaissance. Govindan frames Asan's imagination as a renaissance effervescence comparable to that of Shakespeare, Schiller, Pushkin, Petofi and Whitman in their respective cultures.

This edition has poems by Asan, Pushkin, Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman, Tagore, Iqbal etc. in English. Studies are by noted critics and writers from Mulk Raj Anand to P K Balakrishnan.

Pages: 500
Size: Demy 1/4
Binding: Hardbound
Publication Year: 2014