Modern Bengali Poetry: Desire for Fire

by Arunava Sinha

The seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate RabindranathTagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern poetry in the language, its span ranging from lyrical love poems to passionate political verse, from expressions of existential anguish to psychological explorations. This volume celebrates over one hundred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912681226
• ISBN13: 9781912681228
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Parthian
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"