Edappally Raghavan Pillai Edappally Raghavan Pillai Edappally Raghavan Pillai (30 May 1909 – 4 July 1936) was a Malayalam poet who was closely associated with Changampuzha Krishna Pillai. They are considered as Shelley and Keats of Malayalm poetry. Pillai has been compared by Kesari Balakrishna Pillai to Giacomo Leopardi of Italy. Raghavan Pillai's best poem is perhaps "Maninadam" (The sound of the bells) which he wrote a short while before committing suicide by hanging himself from a tree. The farewell song opens by: It is believed that the famous pastoral play "Ramanan" by Changampuzha is an elegy based on the life and death
Elegy on the Death of Daughter Olga grey-haired."" Janáček dedicated two of his works to his daughter. He inscribed the first published piano reduction of the opera "Jenůfa", his first masterwork and the composition which later opened him the way to the world opera stages, ""To the memory of Olga Janáčková"". The second work, the "Elegy", was inspired by their common love of Russian culture. It was composed to original Russian verses written by Marfa Veveritsa, a member of the Russian Circle and a friend of Olga. The composition was completed on 28 April 1903, however, Janáček later (in March, 1904) altered some parts of it. The