A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s2.77
A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s2.77
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of poetry: (1) true poetry, in which the unspoken part is dominant; (2) poetry of the second grade, in which the unspoken part plays a secondary rôle and serves merely as a decoration for the spoken; and (3) the lowest grade of poetry, in which the whole importance is attached to the beauty of language and to external elaboration. According to this theory, indeed as Ānandavardhana himself says, only a few would emerge as real poets :