Birth of Modern Poetry
Bharat Chandra marks the transition between Precolonial theocentric poetry and modern poetry. Iswar Gupta, Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1834–1873), Biharilal Chakravarti (1834–94), Rabindranath Tagore(1861–1941), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), and Jatindramohan Bagchi (1878–1948) are noteworthy poets of this period.
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