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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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Classical presences.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Madhusudan: a classicizing oeuvre in context
- 2. The Padmābatī nāṭak (1860) and the Judgement of Paris
- 3. The Meghnādbadh kābya (1861), Homer's Iliad, and Vergil's Aeneid
- 4. Further receptions of Vergil's Aeneid
- 5. The Bīrāṅganā kābya (1862) and Ovid's Heroides
- 6. The Hekṭor-badh (1871) and Homer's Iliad
- Conclusion: 'Above all Greek, above all Roman Fame'
- Appendix 1. Appendices Madhusudan's New Testament Examination Script (9 June 1847)
- Appendix 2. Editions of classical texts possibly encountered by Madhusuda
- Appendix 3. Judgement scene in Padmābatī nāṭak
- Appendix 4. Synopsis of the Padmābatī nāṭak
- Appendix 5. Siṃhal-bijay kābya
- Appendix 6. Synopsis of the poems of the Bīrāṅganā kābya
- Appendix 7. Sources of the, The Bīrāṅganā kābya and the Heroides
- Appendix 8. Preface to the Hekṭor-badh
- Appendix 9. Madhusudan's Orientalist Indo-Europeanism.