Shelley and Sri Sri in Vijayanagaram

When Shelley, the English poet of the nineteenth century, and Sri Sri of the twentieth meet in the kingdom of Krishnadevara of the sixteenth century, anachronisms abound. The English poet of romantic poetry, the revolutionary poet who delinked poetry and its grammar, and the traditional poets who formed Ashtadiggajamulu (the eight eminent poets of the king's court) form the three vertices of poetry. When the three meet in the king's court, a no mean poet himself, the literary fireworks will...