खौदन-5३िङ । poet ought to be ), seems to think that the last Book is the best. You will soon, however, have an opportunity of judging for yourself. The book will come out soon, but the question is how many will read it. It is a pity you are not in Calcutta. If you were, I should have teased you to give lectures on the work. That would no doubt have gained it some readers. I am afraid you think my style hard, but, believe me, I never study to be grandiloquent like the majority of the “barren rascals" that write books in thcse days of literary excitement. The words come unsought, floating in the stream of (il suppose I must call it ) Inspiration Good Blank Verse should be sonorous and the best writer of Blank Verse in English is the itoughest of poets-I mean old John Milton And Virgil and Homer are any thing but easy. But let that'pass. You no doubt excuse many things in a fellow's First poem. I began the poem in a joke, and I see I have actually done something that ought to give our national Poetry a good lift, at any rate, that will teach the future poets of Bengal to write in a strain very different from that of the man of Krish nagar-the father of a very vile school of poetry, though himself a man of elegant genius. As a Scribbler, I am of course proud to think that you like my Farces, but, to tell you the candid truth, I half regret having published those two things. You know that as yet we have not established a National ساله
- একেই কি বলে সভ্যভা ও বুড়শালিকের ঘাড়ে রোয় ।
