“Friend, how am I to hold back my heart?”

— Michael Madhusudan Dutt · Love quote

“Friend, how am I to hold back my heart?”

— 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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