Stay a while, O traveller, if you were born in Bengal — rest a brief moment at this grave.Michael Madhusudan Dutt
“O Bengal, countless gems lie stored within your treasury.”
“O Bengal, countless gems lie stored within your treasury.”
— MICHAEL MADHUSUDAN DUTT
Bengali poet and playwright · 1824 – 1873
Michael Madhusudan Dutt introduced blank verse, the epic form and the sonnet into Bengali poetry. His masterpiece Meghnad Badh Kavya (1861) retells the Ramayana with the demon prince Meghnad as its tragic hero. Writing in both English and Bengali, he transformed the course of Bengali literature.
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