English and Hindi Religious Poetry: An Analogical Study

Allahabad Alvārs avatāras Banaras Baroque beauty Bhāgavata bhakti poetry bhāva body Brahman Buddhism C. S. Lewis Caturvedi Christ Christian concept Crashaw cult Dāsa's devotion divine doctrine doth Dvivedī earthly emotional English and Hindi epic erotic experience expression Faerie Queene fourteenth grace Hari hath Herbert Hindi Hindi bhakti Hindu Holy human Ibid images incarnation India influence intellectual Jesus Kabīr Kṛṣṇa Latin hymns Literature London Lord loue māyā medieval meditation metaphysical metaphysical poetry Middle Ages Middle English mind monism mood mystic nirguna Oxford pada Paradise Lost philosophical poem poetic poets praise Psalms Rādhā Rāga Rāma Rāma-bhakti Rāma-carita-mānasa Rāmānuja realised religious lyrics religious poetry Richard Crashaw saguna saguṇa bhakti Sanskrit seventeenth century singing Sītā sixteenth song soul Southwell Spenser spiritual stanza Ṣūfī Sūra Dāsa symbolic thee theistic theology Thomas Traherne thou Traherne's translation Tulasī Dāsa Vaiṣṇava Vaughan Vedānta vernacular verse Vinaya Vinaya Patrikā viraha Vişņu worship