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{{short description|Indian scholar of English literature}}
'''Amaresh Datta''' ({{birth based on age as of date |102|2020|November|noage=1}} – 6 August 2020) was an Indian scholar of English literature. He was the chief editor of the ''[[Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature]]'' published by [[Sahitya Akademi]].<ref name="telegraph"/>

Datta began teaching at the [[Sagar University]] in Madhya Pradesh in the early 1950s. Datta taught at [[Gauhati University]] for 20 years, retiring in 1980 as the dean. He was honoured by the varsity with the position of [[Emeritus Professor]].<ref name="IE"/> He also taught at the [[Dibrugarh University]] where he was the head of the department of English. He was the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree awarded by [[Assam University]], Silchar.<ref name="telegraph"/>

Considered an authority of Shakespeare, he published a book ''Shakespeare's Tragic Vision and Art'' (1963) which was appreciated by critics.<ref name="IE">{{cite web |title=Eminent academician Amaresh Dutta dies in Assam's Dibrugarh |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/amaresh-dutta-dies-assam-dibrugarh-6542861/ |website=[[The Indian Express]] |date=6 August 2020}}</ref> In a review, [[Madeleine Doran]] described the book as "refreshingly old-fashioned" and as being deeply perceptive, with a lot of new insights being put forward on individual tragedies, but also noted the circularity in reasoning as a fundamental weakness.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Doran |first1=Madeleine |title=Review of Shakespeare's Tragic Vision and Art |journal=[[Shakespeare Quarterly]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=1965 |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=351–353 |doi=10.2307/2867673 |jstor=2867673 |issn=0037-3222}}</ref>

He published a collection of poems, ''Captive Moments'' (1971), and has been honoured by the International Association of Poetry of Rome for his poetry.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chandra |first1=N. D. R. |last2=Das |first2=Nigamananda |title=Ecology, Myth, and Mystery: Contemporary Poetry in English from Northeast India |date=2007 |publisher=Sarup & Sons |isbn=978-81-7625-742-8 |page=5 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Ecology_Myth_and_Mystery/Cfg6fjTBK1cC?hl=en&gbpv=1}}</ref>

In 2010, he received the [[Kamal Kumari National Award]].<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |last1=Jaiswal |first1=Umanand |title=Scholar Amaresh Datta passes away |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/north-east/scholar-amaresh-datta-passes-away/cid/1788425 |work=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |date=7 August 2020}}</ref> He received the Krishna Kanta Handiqui National award in 2018 offered by [[Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Assam's Professor Emeritus Dr. Amaresh Dutta passes away at 102 |url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/north-east-india-news/assam-news/assams-professor-emeritus-dr-amaresh-dutta-passes-away-at-102-493542 |website=[[The Sentinel (Guwahati)|The Sentinel]] |date=6 August 2020}}</ref>

He died on 6 August 2020. His death was condoned by the [[Chief Minister of Assam]].<ref name="IE"/>

==Bibliography==
Works published by Amaresh Datta include:
*''Captive Moments'' (1971)
*''Time's Harvest: A Cycle of Poems and Drawings Based on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata'' (1996)
*''Lotus and the Cross'' (1997)
*''Mysticism in Poetry''
*''India's Cultural Unity-Fact and Fiction''
*''Poetry, Religion and Culture and Sri Sankar Dev''
*''Banaprastha'' (2008)
*''Comedy: a Rhetorical Fiction: Five Essays on Shakespeare's Comedies''
*''In the Valley of Time and Tide''

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