Moropant [SEP] date of death
Moropant
Moropant Ramchandra Paradkar (Devanagari: मोरेश्वर रामजी पराडकर) (1729–1794), popularly known in Maharashtra as Moropant (मोरोपंत) or Mayur Pandit (मयूर पंडित), was a Karhade Brahmin Marathi poet who was the last among those classified by Marathi literary scholars as "pandit" (पंडित) poets. (Mukteshwar, Vaman Pandit, Raghunath Pandit, and Shridhar were other prominent "pandit" poets.)
Moropant had planned to write 108 Ramayan-s, but the actual number written by him comes to 94
: an impeccable piece of realistic fiction, with routine material transcended by art at its most clear-eyed and unpretentious".
- Martyn Goff in the "Daily Telegraph" writes "It is difficult to convey the marvellous quality of this book. Constance Keating is a major fictional portrait, her death finally noble".
Publication history.
- 1981, UK, Hamish Hamilton, , Pub date 17 Sep 1981, Hardback
- 1982, US, William Morrow, , Pub date Jan 1982, Hardback