Mahadevi Varma and the Chhayavad Age of Modern Hindi Poetry

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Oxford University Press, 1998 - Literary Criticism - 335 pages
Mahadevi Varma was one of the leading poets of the romantic movement in Hindi poetry during the 1920s and 30s. She was also a writer of prose sketches, a translator of Sanskrit, and a literary theorist. This study combines intellectual history, biography, and literary criticism to create a vivid portrait of this important writer and her era.

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About the author (1998)

Karine Schomer is at University of California, Berkeley.

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