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GANGADHAR MEHER : Selected Works

By :- Madhusudan Pati

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Pages: 424

Format: HB

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-212-5

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 18cm x 25cm

Product Year: 2001

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Gangadhar Meher (1862-1924) is well known all over Orissa as swabhaba kabi, a ?born genius?, for his poetry that is delightfully direct, spontaneous and full of natural grace. He occupies as distinguished a place in Oriya poetic canon as ?Radhanath Ray and Madhusudan Rao, his senior contemporaries and synthesizes the best of both poets such as the former?s artistic beauty and the latter?s philosophical depth with his own-a rich fare of authentic human sentiments, moral concerns and staunch spiritual faith, all animated by a mythopoeic imagination and culminating in a cosmic vision of ananda or divine bliss. Meher?s oeuvre is immense, characterized by a wide range of formal and tonal variations. His long epic narratives, namely Tapaswini, Pranaya Ballari and Kichaka Bodha have been regarded as classics of Oriya poetry. The present volume edited by Dr. Madhusudan Pati, Professor of English at Sambalpur University, seeks to offer the very best of the poetry of Meher in English translation to a readership in India and abroad with the hope that the humanist worth of this poet will come home to one and all, irrespective of linguistic and cultural differences.

Foreword A Note on the Translation Introduction MAJOR NARRATIVES Tapaswini Pranaya Ballari Kichaka Badha Indumati Utkal-Laxmi LONG LYRICS Chandrarajani ? Night of the Moon Basanta Basara ? Spring-Day SHORTER POEMS Bhakti - Adoration Amrutamaya ? Ambrosial Madhumaya ? Honeyed Utkala Bharatinka Ukti ? So Speaks the Oriya Muse Khadyotara Kheda ? Anguish of the Fire-Fly Surya Prati Dipa ? Lamp Accosting the Sun Ganeshankara Atmakatha ? Ganesha?s Soliloquy Taku Madhya Bolithani Dharma-Avatara ? He Too is Called a Dharama-Avatara Malaya Avahana ? Invoking the Vernal Breeze Matrubhumi ? Motherland Ubdodhana ? Exhortation Mahima ? Glory Bharati Bhavana ? Musings of Mother Bharat Bharasa ? The Safe Harbour Arpana ? Consecreation Madhyupara Madhubhikshya ? The Bee?s Prayer for Honey Utkala Sevakara Nababarsa Upalakshare Rachita ? Written on the Anniversary of The Utkal Sevak

Gangadhar Meher: Selected Works is a volume of translation of Meher?s major works. It is a collaborative venture of eight ardent readers of the port, combining readerly sensitivity and creative verve. Of these linguistic and cultural mediators many are distinguished teachers of English and critics and the others are eminent creative writers in Oriya and English. Translators: Jayanta Mahapatra Chandra Sekhar Rath Prafulla Kumar Mohanty Soubhagya Kumar Mishra Pabitra Mohan Nayak Tapas Kumar Chakrabarty Ashok Kumar Mohapatra Madhusudan Pati

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