Keshavsut

Keshavasuta ( Marathi केशवसुत Keśavasut ; actually: Krishnaji Keshav Damle , * 15. March 1866 in Malgund / Ratnagiri, Maharashtra (India); † 7. November 1905 in Hubli , Karnataka (India)) is considered the first Marathi - poet . His complete works (Samagra Keśavsut) include 142 poems.

Life

Keshavsut was born on March 15, 1866 in Malgund / Ratnagiri in southwest India. He comes from a culturally important Brahmin family who lived in very poor conditions. At the age of 13, Keshavsut was married. At the New English School in Poona he received a rather progressive and nationalist school education until 1891, which shaped him and his works. He later worked as a private and school teacher and was temporarily employed in an editorial office. Keshavsut is considered an example of a poor nineteenth-century poet genius. He is described as proud and precocious, lonely, introverted and humble. Keshavsut died at the age of 39.

“To write poetry and to bring this to the people is not the main intention, I say. / Poetry and self-sufficient immersion / is the beautiful intention, I say. "

- Keshavsut.

Works

His love and nature poetry was well known, but he achieved real success through his political poems, which criticize the political and social grievances. In an appellative poem he says: "Let us hoist the flag of the revolution, we stir up an uproar everywhere and dismember tyranny and injustice."

literature

[Entry] Keśavsut . In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. 18 vol., Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , vol. 9, p. 1 [Biogram, work group article The lyrical work of Niteen Gupte].

Individual evidence

↑ Keshavsut in a poem. Quoted from: Niteen Gupte: Das Lyrische Werk. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. 18. Volumes, Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , Vol. 9, p. 1.
↑ Quoted from: Niteen Gupte: Das Lyrische Werk. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. 18 vols., Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , vol. 9, p. 1.

personal data
SURNAME	Keshavsut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Damle, Krishnaji Keshav (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	first Marathi poet
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Malgund / Ratnagiri, Maharashtra (India)
DATE OF DEATH	November 7, 1905
Place of death	Hubli , Karnataka (India)

[1] Keshavsut in a poem. Quoted from: Niteen Gupte: Das Lyrische Werk. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. 18. Volumes, Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , Vol. 9, p. 1.

[2] Quoted from: Niteen Gupte: Das Lyrische Werk. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. 18 vols., Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , vol. 9, p. 1.