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ON MADHUSUDAN DUTT’S VIRANGANA KAVYA<\/i> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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A Virgilian elegance and sweetness and a Virgilian majesty of
\ndiction ennoble the finer epistles of these Heroides; there is too a Virgilian pathos sad & noble breaking out in detached lines
\nand passages, as in Shacountala’s sorrowful address to the leaf and the single melancholy line
\n,  এই কি রে ফেল ফল প্রেম তরু শাখে<\/span>
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 but the more essential poetical gifts, creative force, depth or
\nfirmness of meditation, passionate feeling, a grasp of the object, consistency & purity of characterisation are still absent. They
\nwere not in the poet’s nature and such gifts if denied by Nature, are denied for ever. What exists even faintly can be developed,
\ntransformed, strengthened but what does not exist, cannot be produced by labour.<\/span><\/p>\n

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नासतो विध्यते भावो नाभावो विध्यते सतः <\/p>\n

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The Epistle of Tara is perhaps less satisfactory; the fiery outbursts of a monstrous and lawless passion needed a stronger imagination than Madhusudan’s to conceive and execute them.
\nThe elegances of the Epistle, with its graceful rephrasing of outworn classical images and its stately love-conceits is out of place
\nwhere the volcanic sheerness of a Webster could alone have been appropriate. Nevertheless the passage in which Tara complains
\nof the unclean love she cannot avoid or control is not without a noble dignity of passion; and shows with what charm the poet
\ncould invest the plainest and most hackneyed images. And there are lines in this latter part which have the true note of that terrific
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\nদেহ ভিক্ষা দেহ ভিক্ষা ; the magnificent   
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কলঙ্কি শশাঙ্ক etc. and
\nলিখিনু লেখন etc. and the powerful distiches
\nclosing line have all a dramatic simplicity, fire and force which belong to the highest poetry only. Would that Madhusudan had
\nwritten not only stray lines, distiches, passages, but whole poems in this spirit. The deplorable want of a discerning criticism and
\nfalse conceptions of poetry early imbibed have done untold harm to our best and most promising writers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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