The language of poetry

Description:

Inquiry into the nature of the language of poetry and its implications in the understanding of the spoken language; on the basis of a Corpus of Bengali Vaishnavite songs from Bihar.

subjects: Bengali Folk poetry,  Bengali language,  History and criticism,  Poetics,  Versification,  Bengali Vaishnava poetry,  Bengali Songs,  Poetry,  Bengali Religious poetry,  Dialects,  Pãcpargana