Contents: Introduction. 1. Jibanananda Das. 2. Sudhindranath Datta. 3. Amiya Chakravarty. 4. Annada Sankar Ray. 5. Premendra Mitra. 6. Ajit Datta. 7. Buddhadeva Bose. 8. Sanjay Bhattacharya. 9. Bishnu Dey. 10. Subhash Mukhopadhyay. 11. Birendra Chattopadhyay. 12. Mangalacharan Chattopadhyay. 13. Sibnarayan Ray. 14. Arunkumar Sarkar. 15. Syed Ali Ahsan. 16. Nirendranath Chakravarty. 17. Shamsur Rahman. 18. Sankha Ghosh. 19. Sakti Chattopadhyay. 20. Al Mahmud. Glossary of words. Select reading.