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'''Mohitlal Majumdar''' (Bengali: [[:bn:মোহিতলাল মজুমদার|মোহিতলাল মজুমদার]]; 26 October 1888 – 26 July 1952) was an Indian poet and essayist in the [[Bengali language|Bengali]]-language. He began his journey as a poet, but later became literary critic.<ref name="Banglapedia"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=মোহিতলাল মজুমদার : দেহবাদী কবি |url=https://www.banglasahitto.in/2021/07/mohitlal-majumdar.html |access-date=2022-06-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=মোহিতলাল মজুমদার |url=http://onushilon.org/corita/mohitolal-mojumdar.htm |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=onushilon.org}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Majumder was born in a [[Baidya]] family on 26 October 1888 in the village of [[Kanchrapara]] in [[Nadia district]], [[India]] at his maternal uncle's house<ref name="Banglapedia">{{cite book |last=Rahman |first=Bilkis |year=2012 |chapter=Majumder, Mohitlal |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Majumder,_Mohitlal |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>([[Kanchrapara]] is now in [[North 24 Parganas district]]). His native village was [[Balagarh]] in [[Hooghly District]] of present-day [[West Bengal]].<ref>''Bangla Sahitye Mohitlal'', Khan, Azharuddin, Jigyasa, Calcutta, 1961, p. 2</ref> He graduated in arts in 1908 from Ripon College (now [[Surendranath College]]), Kolkata. He began his career as a teacher at Calcutta High School in 1908 and continued in this profession until 1928. He also worked briefly as a kanungo (1914-1917) in the Settlement Department. He joined [[University of Dhaka]], now in [[Bangladesh]] as a lecturer in the Bengali and Sanskrit Department in 1928 and retired from there in 1944.<ref name="Banglapedia" /><br />
His present house is in a state of ruin at Chongarbon.<br />
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==Writing career==<br />
Mohitlal Majumder made his literary debut through the journal "Manasi".<ref>[https://sobbanglay.com/sob/mohitlal-majumdar/ Mohitlal Majumder biography] (in Bengali) ''sobbanglay.com''. Retrieved 2 October 2021</ref> Later, he contributed regularly to journals such as the Bharati and [[Shanibarer Chithi]]. His early poems, written in pleasing rhythms, reflect the aspirations and sorrows of a dreaming youth. Acquainted with Arabic and Persian, he used Arabic and Persian words in his poems. In pre-Nazrul era, he was the user of Arabic and Persian words. His poems are inspired by both aestheticism and spiritualism.<ref name="Banglapedia" /><br />
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Mohitlal early poems reveal the influence of [[Rabindranath Tagore]], but later, as a member of the [[Shanibarer Chithi]] group, he distanced himself from the older poet.<br />
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As a literary critic, Mohitlal attempted to set standards and reveal the problems of art and literature. His psychological and poet-like approach greatly elevated the status of criticism. In writing critiques he used a number of pseudonyms such as Krittivas Ojha, Sabyasachi and Sri Satyasundar Das.<br />
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Swapan Pasari (1921), Smargaral (1936), Adhunik Bangla Sahitya (1936), Bangla Kavitar Chhanda (1945), Kavi Shri Madhusudan (1947), Sahitya Bichar (1947), Bangla O Bangali (1951), and Kavi Rabindra O Rabindrakavya (1st Vol. 1952, 2nd Vol. 1953).<ref name="Banglapedia" /><br />
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===Poetry===<br />
*Swapan Pasari [pushpo jibon] (1921)<br />
*Bishorini<br />
*Swaragaral (1936)<br />
*Hemanta Godhuli<br />
*Robi pradakshin<br />
*Milanotkantha<br />
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===Essays===<br />
*Adhunik Bangla Sahitya (1936)<br />
*Kobi Sri Madhusudan (1947)<br />
*Sahitya Bichar (1947)<br />
*Sahitya katha (1938)<br />
*Bichitra katha (1941)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Banglapedia|Majumder,_Mohitlal| Mohitlal Majumder}}<br />
* {{OL author|OL3147A}}<br />
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