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| Home > Regional Literature > Telugu Literature > Modern Period In Telugu Literature
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| | Modern Period In Telugu Literature
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Although the first printed Telugubook was out in 1796, it took some time before the modern period in literature set in. Young men acquainted with English literature tried to imitate Shelly, Keats and Wordsworth, and a new type of romantic poetry called the Bhavakavithwa was born. Bengali novelists like Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Ramesh Chandra Dutta were a major influence on modern Telugufiction. Viresalingam Pantulu (1848-1919) wrote the first novel in Telugu, Rakashekharacharitramu. Other writers joined forces to build modern Teluguliterature, like the dramatist Dharmavaram Krishnamachari, Chilakamarti Lakshminarasimham (also called the `blind poet of andhra Desha`) the poets and dramatists Gurujada Apparavu and D. Krishnamacharlu.
Sahiti Samiti
The literary group Sahiti Samiti was set up in 1921, and their `progressive and rationalist` journal Sahiti was followed by several others.Even now many writers preferred the old traditional style, like Tirupati Venkata Kavulu, Sripada Krishnamurthy Shastry and Vavilakolanu Subbarao. The other school was that of the Neo-classicist group of Sri Vishwanatha, Katuri, Pingali, Gadiyaram, G. Joshuan and others. Today the drama, novel, short story, essay and criticism in Teluguhave reached high standards although they started only a century ago.
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