Jibanananda Das
Birth date: February 17, 1899
Died: October 22, 1954
Jibanananda Das's Books
I have two volumes of poems by Jibanananda Das, translated by Joe Winter. Bengal the Beautiful is a collection of sonnets all concerned with the merits of Bengal, which I responded to very favourably; Naked Lonely Hand is more diverse in form and subject matter, selected from six collections and ill...
In a Guardian review artical, 8 September 2018, Amit Chadhuri referred to Jibanananda Das as one of the most “wilfully underrated” poets of the last century, which is as good a provocation as any to find and read his work. Of course I have to read this in translation, and take it as I find it, but ...