CONTENTS: Preface, 1. Genius, 2. Inspiration (Spur), 3. Equipment-An Overview, 4. Simili-Metaphor and Imagery, 5. Nature of Diction and Problems Pertaining to Style, 6. Poetic Convention, 7. Realism and Naturalism, 8. A Note on Bharata's Rasasutra Vibhavanu bhava Vyabhichari Samayogadrasa Nishpattihi, 9. Phychical Distancing Some thoughts on Mental Distancing, 10. Experience of Rasa and Moralistic Stands, 11. Impossibility-Comprehending a Creation which is without the Restrains of Nature's Laws, 12. Nature of Poetry, 13. Literary Criticism in Indian Poetics.