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The Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco...

Section 7.1: The Novelization of Poetry: Vikram Seth

Supplementary Reading

For background information, consult this web page dedicated to Vikram Seth's writing. See what else you can uncover on the Web about Seth and his other novels. You might also wish to search for information on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, the Russian sonnet-novel after which Seth modeled the Golden Gate.

Seth's writing is firmly grounded in a specific locale. As you consider the setting of Seth's novel-poem, you might wish to view an image of the Golden Gate Bridge from a cyber camera.