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Bhagna Hriday

Bengali long lyrical poem

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ97593736 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bhagna Hriday (Bengali: ভগ্নহৃদয়; English: The Broken Heart) is a Bengali long lyrical poem written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1881. He started writing it while on a trip to London. After reading Bhagna Hriday, Maharaja Bir Chandra Manikya awarded Rabindranath Tagore the title of best poet.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bhagna Hriday” is bengali long lyrical poem. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bhagna, Hriday and Bengali, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1881—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bhagna, Hriday and Bengali is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “bengali long lyrical poem” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q97593736. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1881.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bhagna Hriday” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.