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BHARAT fcHANDRA RAI. 157
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to Ram Deb Nag for his oppressive conduct, and sot p*ut
au end^ to his tyranny.
Bharat died at the age of 48 in the year 1760'A. D.
Critics have formed very different estimates 'of Bharat
Chandra's poetical powers. A considerable portion of bur
countrymen would place him in the highest rank of'
poets., and, maintain that he has no rival among the poets
of Bengal. » We must emphatically differ from this opi-
nion. Not to speak of the superior powers of the poets
of the present century, of Madhusudon »Datta 'Jor in-
stance, to entertain such an opinion of Bharat Chandra
Rai's poetry is scarcely doing justice to the works of the
great master from which most of what Bharat Chandra
has written are imitations,—-we mean of course Makunda
Ram Chakravarti. We confess, though few perhaps
will agree with us in this opinion, that Bharat Chandra's
artificial and polished strains strike us as vapid when
compared with the true pathos and the simple and faith-
ful pictures from nature, with which Makunda Ram's
works are replete. Makunda Ram draws from nature,
Bharat Chandra tinges his pictures with his own gorgeous
coloring. The former allows things to appear as they
are and to speak for themselves; the more polished
Bharat Chandra can never reconcile himself to such
inartistic proceeding, he would fain invest them with a
beauty not* their own, and instead of allowing them to
speak for themselves, he would fain lend them the music
of his own lyre. Bharat Chandra is therefore the more
polished' and skilful poet, Makunda Ram the truer paint-
er, and there is a great deal in that. Open any page
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t
to Ram Deb Nag for his oppressive conduct, and sot p*ut
au end^ to his tyranny.
Bharat died at the age of 48 in the year 1760'A. D.
Critics have formed very different estimates 'of Bharat
Chandra's poetical powers. A considerable portion of bur
countrymen would place him in the highest rank of'
poets., and, maintain that he has no rival among the poets
of Bengal. » We must emphatically differ from this opi-
nion. Not to speak of the superior powers of the poets
of the present century, of Madhusudon »Datta 'Jor in-
stance, to entertain such an opinion of Bharat Chandra
Rai's poetry is scarcely doing justice to the works of the
great master from which most of what Bharat Chandra
has written are imitations,—-we mean of course Makunda
Ram Chakravarti. We confess, though few perhaps
will agree with us in this opinion, that Bharat Chandra's
artificial and polished strains strike us as vapid when
compared with the true pathos and the simple and faith-
ful pictures from nature, with which Makunda Ram's
works are replete. Makunda Ram draws from nature,
Bharat Chandra tinges his pictures with his own gorgeous
coloring. The former allows things to appear as they
are and to speak for themselves; the more polished
Bharat Chandra can never reconcile himself to such
inartistic proceeding, he would fain invest them with a
beauty not* their own, and instead of allowing them to
speak for themselves, he would fain lend them the music
of his own lyre. Bharat Chandra is therefore the more
polished' and skilful poet, Makunda Ram the truer paint-
er, and there is a great deal in that. Open any page
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