Meghnad-Badh : Bengali epic poem (1861) by Michael Madhusudan.
... youth, fire, enthusiasm, the future, and the poems of an unexampled genius for its battle-cry. Tilottama had been the casus belli ; that marvellous epic, the Meghnad-badh , was the coup de grâce . When Vidyasagara praised the Meghnad-badh as a supreme poem, the day of the Sanscritists was over. That cabal of Pandits which had shouted against Madhu Sudan, could only murmur weakly against Bankim; ...
... written with naturalness and beauty and power in this kind of metre. I did not read Tagore's book but glancing over its pages my eyes fell on that extraordinary rewriting of the opening of Meghnad Badh 54 and I stopped short with a gasp and a shriek. Truly, truly, but—! July 27,1936 Your letter this morning is beautiful and written in such a soft humanistic tone almost! I ...
... into Hindu literature, and they gave battle with their strange and fiery coloured music to the classic frigidity of the Sanskritists.... That marvellous epic, the Meghnad-badh, was the coup de grace. When Vidyasagar praised the Meghnad-badh as a supreme poem, the day of the Sanskritists was over...." 89 "The society by which Bankim was formed was the young Bengal of the fiftees, the most ex ...
... of speech and manner without those defects of excess and exaggeration which sometimes mar Bengali oratory. We hope that his literary remains will be published, especially the translation of the Meghnad Badh, which, from such capable hands, ought to introduce favourably a Bengali masterpiece to a wider than Indian audience. Page 243 ...
... eminent Prosodist of Bengal. The first person to develop a systematic metrical theory of Bengali and one of the luminaries of the University that Tagore conceptualized in Santiniketan. Meghnad Badh: by Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-1873). It is an epic poem in Bengali, taken from the Ramayana, on how Ravana's son Meghanad was killed. Here are the lines from Robert Browning's ( ...
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