Michael
Madhusudan Dutt won substantial glory to his name as a Bengali poet and
dramatist in 19th century. He was born in Jessore District, East Bengal, and
now a part of Bangladesh. He pioneered in Bengali drama. Meghnad Bodh Kavya was
his super famous work, a tragic epic. It had hit the focus light for being an
exceptional work with style and content in Bengali literature, a rarity then.
His work was
inclusive of affliction and pain, spoken by women with reference to love and
tragedies. Then, being a male writer featuring female characterization was
unique as well as rare.
Owing to his
desire to become an Englishman, he, later on, accepted Christianity. Though he
regretted afterwards, however the pain he got from the haunting memories of his
homeland was reflected in his sorrowful poems. He was extremely good with
Bengali sonnets and to some extent was considered father of the Bengali
sonnets.
Michael
Madhusudan was heavily inspired by life and work of English Romantic poet Lord
Byron. Like Lord Byron, Michael Madhusudan also held characteristics of being
bohemian and romantic, an essential aspect for an artist.
He was a multi-linguistic.
Other than Bengali, Tamil and Sanskrit, he also effectively learnt Greek,
Latin, Italian and French. Michael
Madhusudan was of free opinion, he disliked traditional caste-based arrange
marriage system. Though, he married twice. He died in 1873 in Calcutta.
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