Padmakshi's Literature Blog - an eclectic and truly delightful collection
Visceral, Subtle and Engrossing
From poetic reviews, photo essays to artist interviews and book recommendations. A treasure trove of books - classics to contemporary.
Bio
Unveiling the Writer
Hi!
My name is Padmakshi. I have a personal penchant for poems and writing since a very young age.
Power of words is transcending. My purpose in developing this blog as a Kings' College London BA Comparative Literature student is to disseminate the joy of reading - its contagious. So, join me in my literary journey to relish in words and timeless writers across your and mine national borders.
'Gwelio' - A light read by Martin Booth
Memoirs of a Hong Kong Childhood
Exoticism, Living your life to the fullest, Home and Belonging
I consider each role I’ve had as an integral part in the making of who I am as a literary professional. Each of my experiences helps shape the way I approach each project. To find out more about my experience or background, contact me directly.
50 Great Short Stories by Milton Grane
MY MOST FAVOURITE
If you are looking for literature which demonstrates potent preciseness and great versatility then this is a must read.
Every writer provides well-crafted experience as all of them have a personal unique flair. They write for a purpose. Subtle underlying meaning requires receptive audience and ambiguity which engages the readers furthermore.
Versatile collection —Every story has some variation in either setting, characterisation, themes, plot and devices. Variation such as that of anticlimactic and climactic points.
Contemporary - famous classical writers (Hemingway and Conrad, Huxley)
Vignettes and brief evocative descriptions of characters
British bucolic lifestyle and old London setting
French aristocratic lifestyle
Tedious feeling of ready lengthy novels then opt for literary work like this
G.K Cherston
Imminent sense of closure and imminent “fleetingness and fragility” and enduring effect of written words and every word is crafted in such that readers are left with a sense of love and attachment for the story. Personal Recommendation: Read the story ‘The Garden Party’ by Katherine Mansfield
The Chrysanthemums-John Stienback
The Evening Sun — William Faulkner
titles often subvert the content
The Giocondo Smile -Aldous Huxley
Multisensory and multilayered experience
Poetry 180 - Contemporary and relatable
Billy Collins
-If you are reader who is imaginative and determined - in other words you possess the ability to immerse yourself in words to fully extricate the writer's purpose and meaning behind the content
-Contemporary -> absurd
-Twist (ahh moment)
-Colour Imagery which is poignant
-Funny
-Gripping
Leory V. Quitanna (Poem for Salt)
“The Summer When I was sixteen” Geraldine Connolly
“Masterpieces of world fiction”
Edward Field “The Farewell”
Second hand experience
Literature might keep you in a enclosed shelter —> but leaves you as more worldly persons in myriad of ways
Subtle transformative effects
Timeline
Upcoming Review
Jhumpa LahiriMon, 17 MarIndia
Sujata BhattThu, 06 FebIndia
Arundhati RoyThu, 09 JanIndia
Anita DesaiMon, 27 JanIndia
A literary timeline
Literature: an extraordinary language
These are my most favourite writers and a selection of all time favourite - please click on the image
Countess of Pembroke - Arcadia
Pastoral Romance
End of the 16th century
Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy
Chinua Achebe
A Modern African Writer
The Father of African Literature
An advocate of Pan-Africanism
Famous Works:
'Things Fall Apart'
'An Image of Africa'
Also the writer of various war poems such as 'Refugee: Mother and Child'
Women in Empowerment
African poets -
’Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Maya Angelou
'PHENOMENAL WOMEN'
'STILL I RISE'
Carol Ann Duffy
'The World's Wife'
'Feminine Gospels'
Prologue to Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's Poetry
Literary Allusion
Dichotomy
Humour
John Steinback
…the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation.
Metaphysical poets
John Donne
In the metaphyscial conceit of comparing body with spheres and soul with intelligences
Dryden
Dryden developed a style closer to natural speech which remained the dominant poetic mode for more than a century. He is credited with standardizing the heroic couplet in English poetry by applying it as a convention in a range of works, including satires, religious pieces, fables, epigrams, prologues, and plays.
George Herbert
Herbert is also important, especially in the seventeenth century, not only as a poet but as a cultural icon, an image of religious and political stability held up for emulation during tumultuous time
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
Virginia Woolf
