Complex sentence: He was fascinated by the lyrical mood of Meera and Kabir and widened his knowledge of poetry by studying T.S. Eliot, Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Takasaki.
Split into simpler sentences: He was fascinated by the lyrical mood of Meera and Kabir. Nida widened his horizon of poetry appreciation through the study of T.S. Eliot, Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Takasaki.