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192 LITERATURE OF ©ENGAL.
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Aoaong the minor, poets of the present century we
may mention the n'ames of Madan Mohan Tarkalankar
and Ran*'alal Banerjea. Madan Mohan was bori*' in
Bilwagram "in the district of Nadiya, and in 1856 he
was appointed a Deputy Magistrate, and died two years
after. He is a* imitator of Bharat Chundra an£ delights
in artificial and alliterative though often, sweet and melo-
dious verse. His ^f^rfsfis a translation in' the most
melodious and soft Bengali verse of short Sanscrit lovS
stanzas. His other work ^fcHWl is a free translation of
a Sanscrit work of the same name, and shews in the
author no contemptible power of descriptive poetry. '
Rangalal Banerjea is a living poet aud a Deputy Magis-
trate, and has written three spirited poems on episodes
from Rajput History. His nfw^ft ^t*fJK «^wff and
^^fTr are full *bf spirited descriptions of war and he-
roism. No authentic history perhaps affords to the poet
such stirring tales of heroism and valour as that of
Rajasthan, and our poet has sewed his country well by
embalming passages from the annals of Rajasthan in
admirable verse. '
' We have now shewn what has been done in the pre-
sent century in the line of prose and of poetry respec-
tively. We must now hasten to Drama and Fiction.
Were we to judge the Bengali dramatic literature
of the present day by the number of books published,
we should have to form a very high estimate of its rich-
ness and excellence indeed ; but if we look into the con-
tents of the books, we receive quite a different impression.
We think we may safely assert that there is not one
i
Aoaong the minor, poets of the present century we
may mention the n'ames of Madan Mohan Tarkalankar
and Ran*'alal Banerjea. Madan Mohan was bori*' in
Bilwagram "in the district of Nadiya, and in 1856 he
was appointed a Deputy Magistrate, and died two years
after. He is a* imitator of Bharat Chundra an£ delights
in artificial and alliterative though often, sweet and melo-
dious verse. His ^f^rfsfis a translation in' the most
melodious and soft Bengali verse of short Sanscrit lovS
stanzas. His other work ^fcHWl is a free translation of
a Sanscrit work of the same name, and shews in the
author no contemptible power of descriptive poetry. '
Rangalal Banerjea is a living poet aud a Deputy Magis-
trate, and has written three spirited poems on episodes
from Rajput History. His nfw^ft ^t*fJK «^wff and
^^fTr are full *bf spirited descriptions of war and he-
roism. No authentic history perhaps affords to the poet
such stirring tales of heroism and valour as that of
Rajasthan, and our poet has sewed his country well by
embalming passages from the annals of Rajasthan in
admirable verse. '
' We have now shewn what has been done in the pre-
sent century in the line of prose and of poetry respec-
tively. We must now hasten to Drama and Fiction.
Were we to judge the Bengali dramatic literature
of the present day by the number of books published,
we should have to form a very high estimate of its rich-
ness and excellence indeed ; but if we look into the con-
tents of the books, we receive quite a different impression.
We think we may safely assert that there is not one