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Product Description This is an anthology of the works of four leading Hindi poets, in translation, of the genre and period (roughly between the two world wars) known as Chayavad. This volume comes with a critical introduction by David Rubin who contextualizes this literary movement within the largersocio-political movement of the time. Review "There have been few effective translations of modern Indian poetry into European languages, and the achievements of poets writing in Indian languages remain largely unrecognised in the West...the present volume of excellent translations by David Rubin [renders] a body of Indian verse into arecognizable western poetic idiom"-- R S McGregor, University of Cambridge"An invaluable study for scholars, students, and the general Hindi literati.' -- Anita Anantharam, College of New Jersey