Madly after the muses : Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Datta and his reception of the Graeco-Roman classics /

The works of the Bengali poet and playwright Michael MadhusudanDatta (1824-1873) engage with various texts of the Graeco-Roman canonand do so in a manner which is often subversive and almost always surprising from a Western point of view. The book marshals new archival evidence to show that the poet...

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