THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
living it to develop another strain and profounder voice of poetry, released the real soul of Bengal into espression, I lie work of Bunkim Chandra ts nowoJil-e past, because it has entered alremly in; > the new mind of Bengal which it did uiM( than any other literary influence to Citnu the work of Rabindranath still lar^. holds the present, but it has opened Wtiy- tor the future which promise to go beyond it. Both show an increasing return to the Indian spirit in fresh forms ; both are voices of the dawn, seek more than they find, suggest and are calling for more than they actually evoke. At present we .i fresh preparation, on one side evolving and promising to broaden out from the iatlu- cncc of Tagore, on the other in revolt against it and insisting on a more distinc' tively national type of inspiration and creation ; bat what will come out of it, is not yet clear. On the whole it appear.** that the movement is turning in the same
direction as that of the new art, though
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