Bengali Sonnet Star: Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Michael Madhusudan Dutta was a popular 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was born in “Sagordari” on the bank of Kopotaksho River, a village in Keshobpur Upozila, Jessore District, Bangladesh (Former East Bengal). His father was Rajnarayan Dutt (an eminent lawyer)  and his mother was Jahnabi Devi. He was a pioneer of Bengali drama. His famous work Meghnad Bodh Kavya is a tragic epic. It consists of nine cantos and is quite exceptional in Bengali literature both in terms of style and content. He also wrote poems about the sorrows and afflictions of love as spoken by women.

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