History of Bengali Language and Literature c7.s8.5

c7.s8.5

The rustic element and the classical standard both. So we find in this literature much that is crude, and suited only for a rustic population. But many of its good works, which form a part of the Renaissance literature, conform to a high classical standard, and there are descriptions of great beauty and marked effects in word-painting, which in a subsequent age developed into a high-flown and ornate style,—the characteristic of the age of Bhārat Chandra. The worshippers of Manasā Devī and Maṅgal Chandī were to be found all over Bengal, and many eminent poets were drawn into writing poems in their honour, and these works are characterised by a true literary excellence; but there were other poems, which show a crudeness befitting rustic literature, as that on the god of tigers just referred to.