Echoes From Europe: A Study of Selected Poems

Introduction 18-62 Reception, Response, and Critical Assessment 35 Influence, Imitation, or Borrowing 40 A Brief Note on Prose 44 Jibanananda and Self-Translation 52 Notes 55 Chapter 1: Jibanananda Das and the Western Canon 63-105   Western Echoes in Early Bengali Poetry 64   The Kallol Poets and Western Modernism 72   Symbolism, Imagism, and Surrealism in Vernacular Narrative 87 Modernist Echoes in Jibanananda 93   Notes 101 Chapter 2: Jibanananda Das — Surrealist, Imagist, or Symbolist 106-150   The Symbolist Legacy in Modernism 111   Modernism and the Imagist Aesthetic 125   The Surreal in Jibanananda’s Imagery 135   Notes 149 Chapter 3: John Keats and Jibanananda Das — Sensual Autumns 151-198   Acute Sensory Perceptions and Dreamscapes 159   Visions of “Easeful” Death 169   Time, Decay, and Autumnal Vision 175   Dissolution of Poetic Identity 183   Notes 194 Chapter 4: W. B. Yeats and Jibanananda Das — Myth, Memory, and Symbolic Order 199-260   Patterns of Thematic Coherence 202   Archetypes, Image, and the Symbol 213   The Poetics of Myth and Folklore 228 Patriotic Themes and “Modernist” Anxieties 233   Time, Space, and Poetic Memory 240   Nature, Landscape, and Poetic Vision 251   Notes 260 Epilogue 263-266 Appendix A: A Brief Chronology 267 Appendix B: Selected Poems of Jibanananda Das 271 Appendix C: Seasons of Bengal 275 Appendix D: Periodicals and Magazines 276 Appendix E: A Few Key Terms 279 Appendix F: Dialogues with Europe: Poets after Jibanananda 285 Glossary 290-294 Bibliography 295-314