TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' S H.
TI  - PRISON DAYS AND OTHER POEMS: /Foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru
SN  - 9780143426776
U1  - 821 
PY  - 2018////01/01
CY  - Hariyana
PB  - Penquin Books
KW  - Poems
KW  - Poems Of S. H. Vatsyayan
KW  - Poems Between The Period Of 1933-1938
N1  - Agyeya was jailed as a revolutionary by the British authorities in the early 1930s-an experience that indelibly shaped his literary output. The verses in this collection vividly conjure the horror and tedium of imprisonment: the sound of iron gates clanging shut and the shadows cast by the bars of a cell. But Agyeya's vision never descends into bleakness. Even quarantined, he is constantly aware of the pulse of life radiating outside the prison walls-the lotuses in bloom, the gushing breeze, the mighty seas-as well as the solidarity and compassion that unites those in captivity.
Written between 1933 and 1938, Prison Days and Other Poems astutely captures the mood before Indian independence, when freedom was still merely a dream.
'The grand old man of Hindi literature . . . [Agyeya's] poetry and fiction were only the logical culmination of a multi-faceted career'
India Today
ER  -