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总神8 জীবন-চরিত । ডাক্তার মিত্র রাজনারায়ণ বাবুৰ পত্রের প্রত্যুত্তরে লিখিয়াছিলেন ; Your opinion of Madhu's poem is entirely my own, and Jotindra Mohan Tagore, a man of well cultivated taste, and an excellent judge of poetry, whom perhaps you রাজেন্দ্ৰলাল মিত্ৰ মহাশয়ের BN5 । know concurs with me. It is the first and a most successful attempt to break through the jingling monotony of the tris, and as a poem the best we have in the language. The ideas are no doubt borrowed, and Keats and Shelley and Kalidas and Milton have been largely, very largely, put in requisition; but as you very justly say, "whatever passes through the crucible of the author's mind receives an original shape", so the reader has no opportunity to notice, much less to find fault with, the mosaic character of the materials which go to the making up of Tilottoma The author can never expect a wide circle of readers, but then he must console himself by the reflection that Milton is not the most popular author in English. - The farce it 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 Tilottoma. সাধারণের নিকট তিলোত্তমার সমাদর হইতেছে না, এবং প্ৰাচীন রীতির পক্ষপাতী ব্যক্তিগণ মধুসূদনের প্রতি অবজ্ঞা প্ৰদৰ্শন করিতেছেন, দেখিয়া তিনি লিখিয়াছিলেন ; 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 blankverse. 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

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