পাতা:মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্তের জীবন-চরিত - যোগীন্দ্রনাথ বসু.pdf/৫৩২

8b"Wり জীবন-চরিত। that they have not been able to add insult to injury, - to take our money and not give us some equivalent. You surprise me. Is it possible that Kissen Kumari has not yet reached you ? I must write to my printer again on the subject. There is no accounting for tastc. Jotindra and his men are for Book III. which they pronounce to be 'splendid'. There are many, however, who hold out for Book IV. Your 'feeling' is anything but uncomplimentary. He who is “beautiful," “tender' and 'pathetic,” with a dash of "sublimity,' is sure to float down the stream of time in triumph. All readers are sure to unite in loving and adoring him. Look at the Sanskrit Kalidas, the Latin Virgil, the ltalian Tasso I don't think England has a single poet worthy of being named with these; her Milton is a grander being. Like his own Satan, he is full of the loftiest thoughts but has little or nothing that may be called amiable. He elevates the mind of the reader to a most astonishing height, but he never touches the heart. And what is the consequence P He has a glorious name but few readers. He is Satan himself. We acknowledge him to belong to a far superior order of beings; but we never feel for him. We hear the sound of his ethereal voice with awe and trembling. His is the deep roar of a lion in the silent solitude of the forest. But you must wait, old boy, before you allow this feeling to become settled and permanent. You must read the whole poem through. The nature of the