Buddhadeb Basu was a prominent and prolific writer-- a poet, essayist, playwright and critic. He was the founding editor of the first Bengali-language poetry journal, ’Kavita (Poetry)’. He was even regarded as the literary successor to Rabindranath Tagore. Buddhadeb Basu was a founding member of what is called the post-Tagore modernist (or adhunik) generation. Basu was heavily influenced by Western literature, particularly of Pasternak, and later Baudelaire and Holder in. He also admired Pound, publishing his ‘Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot’ and ‘The Great Digest’ through his Kavita Bhavan press in 1949. Basu was a member of several left-leaning groups, including the Communist-led Progressive Writers’ Union. Frustrated by a lapse into what he felt was ‘political cacophony’. He grew a sense of disillusionment, then frustration, with Bengali political poetry starting in the late 1940's. He then made a break with the Indian Left that garnered him the label of "reactionary", even "CIA Agent", from some. He had the reputation for being uncompromising and too stubbornly stuck in his ways. Basu distrusted the ‘poetry of the moment’. Culture and language played a pivotal role for Basu, and it led him to translate his works into English.
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AAMRA TINJON
RAATBHORER BRISHTI
DHUSHAR GODHULI
AMI CHANCHAL HE
TITHIDOR
RAJANI-HOLO-UTALA
CHOLO MON RUPNOGOREY
MEGDUT
MOHABHARTER KATHA
TAPASWAI O TARANGINI
