Poetry - Research Article from Encyclopedia of Religion

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 81 pages of information about Poetry.

Poetry - Research Article from Encyclopedia of Religion

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 81 pages of information about Poetry.
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The most popular and influential devotional poetry in India is that associated with the bhakti, or popular devotional, movement—a wave of religious fervor that swept over India from South to North, beginning around the sixth century in the Tamil area and flourishing in the Hindi region between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was a grass roots movement, protesting against formalism and priestly domination; insisting on the direct accessibility of God to everyone; attacking purely external practices and hypocrisy; and stressing the importance of inner experience, which generally meant establishing a bond of fervent personal love with the deity. Bhakti is also associated with the rise of vernacular literature and with a group of poet-saints whose works are in many instances the classics of their respective languages. Much of this literature was composed orally, and all of it has been transmitted largely through...

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