Ths farce [একেই কি বলে সভ্যতা] is exquisite, and it is an wonder to me how the author could paint so humorous a picture with one hand while the other was busy with depicting the Miltonic grandeur of Tilottama.
...poor fellow! he is born in evil days, when he will get nothing for his pains save the approbation of a very select few. Our countrymen are not yet in a position to appreciate and enjoy blank verse. It requires a mental training which in these degenerate days of the Kaliyug no Bengalee, who has not a liberal English education, can lay claim to. We may however expect, if we escape gliding down to serfdom, to muster strong and esteem Tilottama as her autotype was in the court of Indra. For the present I hear that even the renowned Vidyasagar, for whom I have the greatest respect, thinks our pet an abortion, the worthless issue of drunkenness and stupidity. Would such abortions were plentiful in the country and men to know their value!—পৃ. ২৯৪-৯৫।
৬। ১ জুলাই ১৮৬০ তারিখে মধুসূদন রাজনারায়ণ বসুকে—
The Tilottama is out. I bave ordered Messrs. I. C. Bose & Co., to send up a copy to you, As soon as you get the book, you must sit down and read it through and then tell me what you think of it. I am not a man to be put out by any amount of adverse criticism, especially, when that criticism is from an honest friend, who wishes me well.
The want of what is called “human interest” will no doubt strike you at once, but you must remember that it is a story of Gods and Titans. I could not by any means shove in men and women.
You want me to explain my system of versification for the conversion of your sceptical friends. I am sure there is very little in the system to explain; our language, as regards the doctrine of accent and quantity, is an “apostate,” that is to say, it cares as much for them as I do for the blessing of our Family-Priest! If your friends know English, let them read the Paradise Lost, and they will find how the verse, in which the Bengali poetaster writes, is constructed. The fact is, my dear fellow, that the prevalence of Blank verse in this country, is simply question of time. Let your friends guide their voices by the pause (as in English Blank verse) and they will soon swear that this is the noblest measure in the Language. My
