ఈ పుటను అచ్చుదిద్దలేదు
counterparts in this Telugu poem. In the middle ages, alike in the East and in the West people did not like to put on much disguise. This accounts for a certain childish grossness in thi characters. Extreme superstition co-existed with worst sensuality. And the Telugu poet seems to have fancied that unbridled grossness in real life justified grossness of representation equally unrestrained !
But times have happily changed. Alike the taste of cultured people and the requirements of law demand a more healthy, more respectable poetry. Still it would be a ity if poetry of the type of Kridabhiramam were suffered to die on any account. With the precautions the publishers promise, there ought to be no objection to the publication of a scholars' edition of the work, No Englishman would agree to the supperssion of any of thi "Canterbury Tales" or of the poems of Byron. A work like this is equally dear to the Telugu scholar. If precautions in regard to publication are necessary in the interests of public morality, they must not go the length of stiffing what is best in the work of the matters of the past age.
(Sd.) R. VENKATASIVUDU
GUNTUR 28-1-1929
