 Michael Madhusudan Dutt is a famous 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was a pioneer in dramatic writing and wrote Meghnand Bodh Kavya,a grand heroic epic in nine cantos which is quite unique in the body of bengali literature. He also wrote poems about the sorrows and hurts of love spoken by women. He was also the father of Bangla Sonnet.
Neither Shakespeare nor Milton but Byron was Madhusudan`s hero.He was erudite and besides Bengali, Sanskrit and Tamil, he studied Greek, Latin, Italian and French.
His principal Bengali works are written mostly between 1858-62 and includes number of dramas writen in prose, long narrative poems and many lyrics. His most important prose drama - Sharmishtha(1858) is based on an episode in Sanskrit from mahabharata. His poetic works include Tillottama Sambhava (1860) and a narrative poem on the story of Sunda and Upasunda. The Meghnand bodh Kavya (1861) on the ramayan theme, Vrajangana(1861) a cycle of lyrics on Radha Krishna theme and Birangana(1862), a set of 21 epistolary poems on Ovid`s Heroides.
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