Selected Poems of Buddhadeva Bose
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 5 June 2003
- ISBN 9780195663358
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 223x146x20 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is beginning to be recognized as the most multitalented amongst the post-Tagore generation of Bengali writers. Active in many literary genres, he was a key figure in the modernist movement in Bengali poetry and richly deserves to be known as a major poet of twentieth-century India. A substantial selection of his poems, representing the stages of his development from youth to maturity, is presented here in English translation, with the necessary critical
apparatus, by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, well-known for her translations of Tagore's poetry.
Long description:
Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is beginning to be recognized as the most multitalented amongst the post-Tagore generation of Bengali writers. Like Tagore, he was a versatile writer, comfortable in genres as diverse as poetry, novels, short stories, drama, essays, travelogues, and memoirs. He was also an influential editor and critic, a translator of poetry who had a profound impact on younger poets, a writer for children, and a pioneer in comparative literary studies. He set up the
Department of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and held visiting appointments at several American campuses.
He came into prominence in the thirties, in which decade he founded the poetry quarterly Kavita, which he edited for a quarter of a century. This became the leading Bengali poetry magazine of its time and was also an important vehicle for the discussion and review of poetry. Tied to the magazine was its own publishing house, Kavitabhavan, 'The House of Poetry', both run from the poet's home. The apartment in southern Calcutta where he lived and from which he carried on his literary
activities became an institution in the city's arts world, a platform of which poets anywhere in the world would be proud. By virtue of his magazine and publishing outlet, Bose became the central figure in a cluster of poets who came to embody Bengali modernism. He richly deserves to be known as a major poet of
twentieth-century India.
A substantial selection of his poems, representing the stages of his development from youth to maturity, is presented here in English translation, with the necessary critical apparatus, by the bilingual poet Ketaki Kushari Dyson, who acknowledges Bose as a mentor in her own literary life.
Bose's love of his Bengali mother tongue lights up his poetry - and for these translations to do the same is a wonderful achievement.
