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Ritikavya Kaal
The poets of Ritikavya kaal or the Scholastic period can be classified into two
groups on the basis of their subject: Ritibaddha (those wedded to rhetorics) and
Ritimukta (free from rhetorical conventions). The former poets composed on
definitional and (Lakshana) and illustrative (Lakshya) themes. The essential
nature of Rasa, Alankara, Nayikabheda were illustrated by them through Saviyas
and Kavithas. Poets like Chintamani, Keshav, Mati Ram, Deva, Kulpati Misra, and
Bhikari Das were leaders of this style. The second group consists of free-minded
poets like Alam, Ghananand, Bodha and Thakur. They wrote in a spontaneous manner
with powerful feelings of Love, quite apart from rhetorical poetry. This age saw
two more poetic trends. Didactic poetry in stray verses composed by Vrinda,
Vaital and Giridhar and Heroic Poetry by Bhushan, Sudan, Lal and various others.
