Hyderabad: The United States Library of Congress, one of the greatest libraries in the world, has acquired 45 works of the Telugu literary genius Dr C. Narayana Reddy, as well as 19 others on him.
The US Consulate in Hyderabad announced this on its website when paying condolences to Dr Reddy who passed away on Monday morning.
The Library of Congress said on its website that Dr Reddy was deeply interested in medieval Urdu poetic traditions and more particularly in the ghazal form.
‘As a master in two languages, Telugu and Urdu, he has imbibed influences of Urdu poetry in his Telugu poetry. Although a prolific writer, Dr Reddy’s poetry remains fresh. His diction is musical both in textual form and in recitation form. He doesn’t use rhyme in a simple way but with associated internal rhyme in meaning and poetic metaphor. He is not particularly influenced by any of the poets who preceded him; his poetry is neither bound by the times in which it is written nor is it limited to any persuasion or style,’ the tribute by the Library of Congress said. Dr Reddy’s work appealed across ideologies. He had won the Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1982.
