"Poetry cannot report the event, it must be the event, lived through in a form that can speak about itself while remaining wholly itself."
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The Overwhelming Question ' University of Toronto Press 1976
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Balachandra Rajan
Balachandra Rajan (March 24, 1920 β January 23, 2009) was an Indian diplomat and scholar of poetry and poetics.
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