The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal

by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, William Radice, Clinton B. Seely

Book Overview

"The poem is rising into splendid popularity. Some say it is better than Milton-but that is all bosh-nothing can be better than Milton; many say it licks Kalidasa; I have no objection to that. I don't think it impossible to equal Virgil, Kalidasa, and Tasso." Michael Madhusudan Datta wrote this in a letter to a friend about his verse narrative, The Slaying of Meghanada (1861). The epic, a Bengali version of the Ramayana story in which Ravana, not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195167996
• ISBN13: 9780195167993
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.5"