Jibanananda Das
Transcreated by Prof. Asoke Bhattacharya
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...Jibanananda is so in a rather special sense: he is absorbed in nature, physical nature, and in certain aspects of it. A nature- worshipper, but by no means a platonist or pantheist : he is rather a pagan who loves the things of nature sensuously, not as tokens or symbols, nor as patterns of perfection, but simply because they are what they are.
He is important because he has brought a new note to our poetry, a new tone of feeling, and has tuned our ears to a subtle melody drawn from apparently conventional patterns of verse, for, despite the metrical seductions of modern Bengali, he has confined himself throughout to a single metrical norm, and that the oldest. It is rather remarkable that, though metrically a hermit, he has yielded to the prose poem and made it as haunting as his verse.'
 
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