Subramania Bharati: Personality and Poetry

This book contains aspects of the poetic personality of C. Subramania Bharati in terms of his life and works. A section of this book is devoted to Bharati’s prose works and his influence on modern Tamil prose. His works launched a new era in the history of Tamil literature. As a patriot and a revolutionary, he represents the voice of a new generation in Twentieth century Tamil literature. Bharati’s National Poems, Philosophical Poems, Kannan-Pattu, Kuyil-Pattu and Panchali Sabatham have earned a great reputation for him as a poet and a philosopher. This critical analysis of the poet Bharati by his grand daughter explores the many-sided aspects of his personality; Bharati, the patriot, poet, philosopher, admirer of Nature and prose-writer.