The Book
This collection of essays, spanning the author’s academic career, starts by looking back to his early experience of Bengal in Barisal, Bangladesh, hometown of Bengali poet Jibanananda Das, and goes on to analyze important works of Bangla writers including those of Rabindranath Tagore, Michael Madhusudan Datta, Mir Mosharraf Hosain, Rizia Rahman among others.
The Author(s)
Clinton B. Seely is a leading western scholar of Bengali literature. His path-breaking biography of Jibananada Das is recognized as a model of its kind.