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  1. Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!nntp.Stanford.EDU!shaad
  3. From: shaad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Shaad M. Ahmad)
  4. Subject: Re: Bengali literature for western friends
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec24.073529.21140@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Sender: ?@leland.Stanford.EDU
  7. Organization: The Institution for the Casually Insane
  8. References: <1992Dec23.234549.6952@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 07:35:29 GMT
  10. Lines: 27
  11.  
  12.      Sayan Bhattacharyya <bhattach@quip.eecs.umich.edu>, in article 
  13. <1992Dec23.234549.6952@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, was looking for antho-
  14. logies of Bengali literature, preferably poetry, translated into
  15. English.
  16.  
  17.      I have not been overly successful in similar searches; but, I
  18. would, albeit with some reservations, suggest _Poetry_from_Bengal_ 
  19. (translated by Ron D. K. Banerjee, ISBN 0-948259-79-5). 
  20.  
  21.      The translations are satisfactory although, personally, I would 
  22. like to see Naomi Lazard make an attempt on Bengali poems. A fairly
  23. large number of poets (e.g. Shamsher Anwar, Buddhadev Bose, Dinesh das, 
  24. Jibananda Das, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Samsul Haque, and Premendra Mitra)
  25. are represented; unfortunately, this representation appears to consist
  26. almost entirely of artists from West Bengal.
  27.  
  28.      Regards.
  29.                                                            
  30.  shaad@leland.stanford.edu                             - Shaad -
  31.  smahmad@pucc.BITNET
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  34. "While most people's opinion changes, the conviction of their correctness
  35.  never does."
  36.                       -- Anonymous
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