resting_place movement death_place children subject nationality parents spouse genre article_title name occupation
lower circular road cemetery bengal renaissance calcutta british india -lrb- now kolkata -rrb- , bengal presidency , napoleon sharmistha literature indian rajnarayan -rrb- dutt -lrb- father -rrb- jahnabi devi -lrb- mother rebecca sophia white -lrb- partner 1856 -- 1873 -rrb- mactavys -lrb- m. 1848 -- 1856 -rrb- henrietta poet , playwright michael madhusudan dutt
 michael madhusudan dutt writer
michael madhusudan dutt

michael madhusudan dutt , or michael madhusudan dutta -lrb- -lrb- -rrb- ; 25 january 1824 -- 29 june 1873 -rrb- was a popular 19th-century bengali poet and dramatist .
he was born in sagordari -lrb- -rrb- , on the bank of kopotaksho -lrb- -rrb- river , a village in keshabpur upazila , jessore district , bengal presidency , east bengal -lrb- now in bangladesh -rrb- .
his father was rajnarayan dutt , an eminent lawyer , and his mother was jahnabi devi .
he was a pioneer of bengali drama .
his famous work `` meghnad bodh kavya '' -lrb- -rrb- , is a tragic epic .
it consists of nine cantos and is exceptional in bengali literature both in terms of style and content .
he also wrote poems about the sorrows and afflictions of love as spoken by àwomen .
as a young student , dutt was influenced by the thoughts and actions of the young bengal-a movement by a group of illustrious former students of the hindu college -lrb- now presidency college -rrb- in calcutta -lrb- now kolkata -rrb- against the atrocities , blind beliefs and customs they held as illogical , prevalent in the hindu society of 19th century bengal .
dutt , a student of hindu college himself , aspired to be an english poet and longed to travel to england to gain fame .
when his father , concerned by these trends , arranged his marriage , he rebelled .
one aspect of his rebellion involved conversion to christianity .
dutt is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets in bengali literature and the father of the bengali sonnet .
he pioneered what came to be called `` amitrakshar chhanda '' -lrb- blank verse -rrb- .
dutt died in calcutta , bengal presidency on 29 june 1873 .
although his first love remained poetry , michael madhusudan dutt , or madhu - as he was called affectionately , showed prodogious skill as a playwright .
he was the first to write bengali plays in the english style , segregating the play into acts and scenes .
he was also the pioneer of the first satirical plays in bengali -- `` buro salik er ghare row '' -lrb- bengali-ব ুড়ো শালিকের ঘাড়ে রো -rrb- and `` ekei ki bole sovyota -lrb- bengali-এক েই কি বলে সভ্যতা ? -rrb-
-lrb- is this what we call civilisation ? '' .
when deenabandhu mitra wrote a bengali play portraying the plight of the workers in indigo plantations at the hands of their british masters , dutt was the person who translated the play into english .
rumour has it that he translated the entire play in a single night .
there is no proof that dutt had translated the play , however , as - on account of fear of prosecution by the british government of india - neither the writer 's nor the translator 's name was printed when the play was published in english .
after this episode dutt went back to writing mainly poetry-occasionally writing short pieces of prose .
he had also translated the episode of prince hector 's death from homer 's illiad into bengali .
although dutt was a littérateur par excellence , he was an alcoholic from his youth and his addiction grew as he aged .
it was the source and cause of many of his hardships and miseries-both financial and mental .
he was supported in his times of financial crisis by his friends and sri ishwarchandra vidyasagar ; the latter sent him monthly allowances regularly on the condition that dutt should concentrate all his efforts in creating great specimens of bengali poetry .
dutt was , however , never able to master his addiction and it led to his untimely death .
michael madhusudan dutt was an important figure of the bengali renaissance who helped place bengali literature on the throne it holds at present .
he was hailed as the greatest poet of the bengali language until the advent of rabindranath tagore .
even now , he is one of the great poets of the bengali language .
