Amaresh Datta
Amaresh Datta (1917 or 1918 – 6 August 2020) was an Indian scholar of English literature. He was the chief editor of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature published by Sahitya Akademi.[1]
Biography
Datta began teaching at the
Considered an authority of Shakespeare, he published a book Shakespeare's Tragic Vision and Art (1963) which was appreciated by critics.[2] In a review, Madeleine Doran described the book as "refreshingly old-fashioned" and as being deeply perceptive, with a lot of new insights being put forward on individual tragedies, but also noted the circularity in reasoning as a fundamental weakness.[3]
He published a collection of poems, Captive Moments (1971), and has been honoured by the International Association of Poetry of Rome for his poetry.[4]
In 2010, he received the Kamal Kumari National Award.[1] He received the Krishna Kanta Handiqui National award in 2018 offered by Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University.[5]
He died on 6 August 2020. His death was condoled by the
Bibliography
Works published by Amaresh Datta include:
- Captive Moments (1971)
- Time's Harvest: A Cycle of Poems and Drawings Based on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata (1996)
- Lotus and the Cross (1997)
- Mysticism in Poetry
- India's Cultural Unity-Fact and Fiction
- Poetry, Religion and Culture and Sri Sankar Dev
- Banaprastha (2008)
- Comedy: a Rhetorical Fiction: Five Essays on Shakespeare's Comedies
- In the Valley of Time and Tide
References
- ^ The Telegraph. Kolkata. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ a b c "Eminent academician Amaresh Dutta dies in Assam's Dibrugarh". The Indian Express. 6 August 2020.
- JSTOR 2867673.
- ISBN 978-81-7625-742-8.
- ^ "Assam's Professor Emeritus Dr. Amaresh Dutta passes away at 102". The Sentinel. 6 August 2020.
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