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Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) is one of the most important poets of Bengal. Nevertheless, he remains a poet little known outside West Bengal and Bangladesh. Perhaps due to the absence of competent translations into English and other languages, Das’s achievement as a poet remains unrepresented in world literature. This selection of poems is designed to emphasize how Das’s poems are great treasures of our literature through the ...
Poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote to the then rising poet Jibanananda Das, on the 12th March,1937 in the following words: I am glad to read your poems. Which indicate a sense of relish, an individuality and a pleasure of looking around. Prof. Humayun Kabir, a reputed Oxonian and a Poet himself, spoke of Jibanananda as the noblest Bengali poet after Rabindranath Tagore. The Illustrated Weekly of India, wrote in 1985 of Jibanananda as one of our finest poets. The ...