Shamsur
Rahman (1929 - 2006) is indisputably the greatest
poet of Bangladesh, with more than
sixty books of poetry to his credit. The
renowned critic, Syed Manzoorul Islam,
speaks of Rahman as having "produced a solid
body of work which has permanently changed
the geography and the climate of Bengali
poetry. He has given it a new dimension and
a meaning, he has created an ethos which
belongs indisputably to him. He has given us
a language, which we did not have.
