Does the Bhagwad Gita entreat you to kill? Of course it does. It is an extremist, metaphysical document that’s full of killer apps. “Go out and kill them,” he says, on the battlefield at Kurukshetra, ...

The Incarnation, and Passion Lord, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory, To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam’st a woful story. To put on clouds instead of light, ...

The beauty of poetry is the scope it offers for the imagination. The unthinkable becomes alive through words, and the unimaginable animates in front of our mind's eye. One device to achieve this is ...

What a subject! And, in very truth, for once, a 'strangely neglected' one. Oh, I know you can hardly open a newspaper or magazine without coming across a set of instructions - most of them unoriginal, ...

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) was an English poet and, like John Donne and George Herbert, he is considered one of the major metaphysical poets. Like these two poets, too, Crashaw was an Anglican priest ...

The CLA Journal is a multilingual, peer-reviewed quarterly publication by the College Language Association. Established in 1957, the journal fosters the publication of socially engaged, innovative, ...

Tatvapadas — metaphysical poems of known and unknown authorship — have always been part of the literary tradition of Kannada, but never documented as one integrated body of work. Now, for the first ...

ohn Donne (1572–1631) and Abdul Qadir Bedil (1644–1720) emerged as titanic figures within their respective cultural, linguistic and historical milieus. A close reading of their oeuvres reveals ...

Does the Bhagwad Gita entreat you to kill? Of course it does. It is an extremist, metaphysical document that`s full of killer apps. Can the Gita be dubbed extremist literature? Indeed, yes, for it ...