LIST OF BENGALI POETS

Classical Poets

• Dhoyin or Dhoyi Sen
• Sandhyakar Nandi
• Vidyapati
• Jayadeva
• Chandidas
• Krittibas Ojha
• Khelaram Chakrabarty (c. 16th century)
• Dwija Madhab or Madhabacharya (c. 16th century)
• Rupram Chakrabarty (c. 17th century)
• Akinchan Chakrabarty (c. 18th century)
• Ghanaram Chakrabarty (c. 1669-?)
• Ramprasad Sen (c. 18th century)
• Aju Gossain (c. 18th century)
• Alaol
• Daulat Qazi
• Syed Sultan
• Bharatchandra Ray

Founders of modern Bengali poetry

• Iswarchandra Gupta
• Michael Madhusudan Dutta
• Nabinchandra Sen
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Jatindramohan Bagchi
• Dwijendralal Ray
• Satyendranath Dutta
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Mohitalal Majumdar
• Jibanananda Das
• Jasimuddin
• Amiya Chakravarty
• Bishnu Dey
• Sudhindranath Dutta
• Buddhadev Bose
• Sukanta Bhattacharya
• Ahsan Habib
• Farrukh Ahmad
• Syed Ali Ahsan
• Shamsur Rahman
• Al Mahmud
• Abul Hasan

Bengali poets from other parts of the world

• Abdul Gaffar Choudhury
• Abul Hasan
• Masud Ahmed
• Shamim Azad
• Taslima Nasrin

Hungryalist poets

• Shakti Chattopadhyay
• Binoy Majumdar
• Samir Roychoudhury
• Malay Roy Choudhury
• Subimal Basak

Metrical poets

• Annadashankar Roy
• Sukumar Roy
• Farrukh Ahmad
• Shamsur Rahman
• Motiur Rahman Mollik (1950–2010)
• Abu Zafar Obaidullah
• Rafiqul Haque
• Fayez Ahmed
• Ekhlasuddin Ahmed
• Abdur Rahman
• Nirmalendu Goon
• Asad Chowdhury
• Mustafa Majid
• Bimal Guha
• Shahabuddin Nagari
• Mosharraf Karim
• Nasir Ahmed
•  Asad bin Hafiz
• Wali Farhad

Song composers

• Lalon Shah
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Dwijendralal Ray
• Atulprasad Sen
• Rajanikanta Sen
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Hason Raja
• Kangal Harinath
• Shah Abdul Karim
• Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal
• Shahabuddin Nagari
• Motiur Rahman Mollik
• Anjan Dutt
• Kabir Suman
• Nachiketa
• Gobinda Haldar

Poet of Kolkata

• Joy Goswami
• Sunil Gangopadhyaya
• Shakti Chattopadhyay
• Subodh Sarkar

Bibliography

• Biletey Bishsotoker Bangla Kobi, Rabbani Choudhury, Agamee Prakashani, Dhaka 2000
• Bangladesher Gronthoponji Boimela 2009, Rabbani Choudhury, Agamee Prakashani, Dhaka 2009
• Shanghati Tritio Banglar Lekok Porichithi Boimela 2009, Shanghati Literary Society, UK

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