Jaishankar prasad biography definition
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Jaishankar Prasad
Indian (Hindi) litterateur and writer (1889-1937)
Jaishankar Prasad (30 January 1889[1] – 15 November 1937)[3] was a prominent figure in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.
Prasad was his pen name.[4] He was also known as Chhayavadi kavi.[5]
Poetic style
Prasad started writing poetry with the pen name of ‘Kaladhar’.
Jaishankar prasad biography definition
The first collection of poem that Prasad penned, named, Chitradhar, was written in Braj dialect of Hindi but his later works were written in Khadi dialect or Sanskritized Hindi.[5]
Later on Prasad promulgated ‘Chhayavad’, a literary trend in Hindi literature.
He is considered one of the Four Pillars (Char Stambh) of Romanticism in Hindi Literature (Chhayavad), along with Sumitranandan Pant, Mahadevi Verma, and Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.
His vocabulary avoids the Persian element of Hindi and mainly consists of Sanskrit (Tatsama) words and words derived fr