Terpander : (c.647 BC), Greek poet & musician of Lesbos, an island in the Aegean Sea, he sang to the accompaniment of the “Kithara”, a seven-stringed instrument resembling a lyre, which he was said to have invented.
... Vikramaditya, Bengali verse had very little to recommend it beyond a certain fatiguing sweetness. Virility, subtlety, scope, these were wanting to it. Then came Madhu Sudan and Bankim, and, like Terpander and Orpheus added fresh strings to the lyre. In Madhu Sudan's hands that nerveless and feminine dialect became the large utterance of the early Gods, a tongue epic and Titanic, a tongue for the storms ...
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