Kalidasa
(flourished fifth century CE), Indian playwright and poet. Kalidasa was the greatest poet of India's classical age, which lasted from 500 BCE to 540 CE. Despite numerous legends about ...
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Kalidasa (active late 4th-early 5th century) was classical India's master poet and dramatist. He demonstrated the expressive and suggestive heights of which the Sanskrit language is capable and reveal...
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In the following excerpt, Keith summarizes and discusses each of Kalidasa's poetical works.
The opinion of India which makes the Rtusamhara, cycle of the seasons, a youthful work of Kalidasa...
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Ingalls is an American educator and critic specializing in the study of Sanskrit literature. In the following essay, he examines Kalidasa's milieu, noting the manner in which the spirit of the ...
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In the following essay, Walker compares Kalidasa's Cloud-Messenger to the Western notion of pastoral poetry.
The Cloud Messenger (Meghaduta), perhaps the masterpiece of Kalidasa, the greates...
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In the following essay, Tubb examines problematic alterations made to the plot of the Sanskrit play Parvatiparinaya and the poem upon which it is based, The Birth of the War-God.
The late sanskrit ...
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In the excerpt below, Gupta places Kalidasa's work in the sukumara or "delicate" style, which is characterized as being free from affectation and growing organically out of the po...
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In the following review, Seeby criticizes the translator of A Round of Seasons for his over-reliance on prosody.
The Rtusamhara, A Round of Seasons, is a fairly early, if not the earliest, example ...
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Kalidasa
Kalidasa
Critical Essay by A. Berriedale Keith
