"I advance an opinion that we have few specimens either in classical or modern poetry of more genuine tenderness or delicate feeling."
— Kalidasa

January 1, 1970

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Sources

H. H. Wilson, on Kalidasa's Megha Dutt (Cloud Messenger), quoted in W. Ibn, Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's 'Orientalism (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009)