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Kabi O Kabita

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Kabi O Kabita (Poets and Poetry) is a collection of commentaries and essays on select Odia poets and their poetry, by Dr. Mayadhar Mansinha (also written as Mansingh), a poet and litterateur in his own right. Odia, the language of some 44 million people residing in Odisha State, India. Odia, and Odisha, has a long heritage of culture and the written arts. This compilation of 20 essays is but a sample of the riches of Odia literature.

There are essays and commentaries on noted poets of Odisha ̶ Gopala Krushna, Radhanatha, Madhusudana, Gangadhara, Nanda Kishora, Kuntala Kumari, Gopabandhu, Nilakantha, Godabarisha, and Padmacharana. Two poets, not from Odisha also make the list; their poetry belongs to the whole world, Rabindranath and Shakespeare.

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Mayadhar Mansinha (also spelled Mansingh) (13 November 1905 – 11 October 1973) was a towering literary figure in Odia literature in the mid-twentieth century. The bulk of Mansinha’s writings are in Odia, the language of some 40 million people, of Odisha State, India. His first book, Dhoopa (Incense), a bouquet of romantic poems, was published in 1931, while he was still a student. With Dhoopa Mansinha helped usher in the modern era in Odia literature. He continued to write extensively, with outpourings of poetry, drama, essays, and criticisms and became recognized as a romantic poet and a literary genius. The University of Durham awarded him a Ph.D. in English in 1939, based on a dissertation comparing the works of two giants of literature, Kalidasa, and Shakespeare. He authored some 80 books, and edited two newspapers and several literary magazines, among them Sankha and Jhankara. His writings in English include the History of Oriya Literature (1962), Saga of the Land of Jagannath (1971) and Ripples on the Mahanadi (1971) and numerous English articles in newspapers and journals. His contributions to literature were recognized with the award of Padmashri in 1967 by the Government of India.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Eagle Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 6 October 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Oriya
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 198 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1645603717
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1645603719
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 259 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.14 x 21.59 cm
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
  • Importer ‏ : ‎ Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd., 7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi – 110002 INDIA, Email – customercare@atlanticbooks.com, Ph – 011-47320500
  • Packer ‏ : ‎ Peacock Books, DE-155, TAGORE GARDEN, NEW DELHI, India 110027

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