Sanchita
Selected Poems and Lyrics of Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam
Paperback
Retail Price: $19.95
Paperback
Retail Price: $19.95
The translation of the poems in this book has captured the essence of the original Bengali language beautifully and revealed one of world Literature’s best classics. This collection of poems and lyrics is a journey through religion, spirituality, mythology, and ethics, as it mimics the deep and impressive expression of Poet’s verses.
Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam selected and compiled some of his best poems and lyrics in a volume and named it "Sanchita" –a Bengali term of anthology of some selected poems and lyrics. The resourceful poems and lyrics in this anthology uphold human dignity, religious harmony, truth, beauty, pain and love. Kazi Nazrul's poems and lurics validated the philosophy of human values and social justice. The superb poetic excellence of Romanticism is manifested in every page of this book—a masterpiece of literature. Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam captured the theme of love and humanity in the poems that readily demonstrated his feelings for mankind, his rebelliousness against injustice and his emotion as a lover in concrete and sublime form. By being so romantic the Poet left the impression of his feelings and emotions all along his poems and lyrics as a true lover. The Poet merged himself with the beauteous hills, forests, birds, mountains, rivers and seas around him and expressed his feelings of happiness and pain. The philosophy of universal equality of mankind reflects very much as the center theme in some of his poems and lyrics of the book. He urged the mankind to put an end to all differences and hindrances that exist in the religion and society and bring them at one confluence of equality and justice. As he wrote:
“Within thee lie the wisdom of all ages and scriptures,
O my friend, open thy heart, all scriptures are there!”
Paperback
Format: 5 x 8 Black & White Paperback, 347 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (May 19, 2015)
ISBN10: 1478755733
ISBN13: 9781478755739
Genre: POETRY / General