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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781476303321

Titolo

Anglophone poetry in colonial India, 1780-1913 [[electronic resource] ] : a critical anthology / / edited by Mary Ellis Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8214-4357-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Series in Victorian Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

GibsonMary Ellis <1952->

Disciplina

821/.914080954

Soggetti

Indic poetry (English)

Indic poetry (English) - 19th century

Indic poetry (English) - 18th century

Indic poetry (English) - History and criticism

India Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; A Note on Names; Abbreviations; Introduction; Sir William Jones; Sir John Horsford; James Atkinson; Reginald Heber; George Anderson Vetch; Horace Hayman Wilson; John Lawson; Thomas Medwin; Emma Roberts; James Ross Hutchinson; Henry Meredith Parker; David Lester Richardson; Honoria Marshall Lawrence; Kasiprasad Ghosh; Henry Louis Vivian Derozio; Henry Page; Sir John William Kaye; E.L.; Michael Madhusudan Dutt; Shoshee Chunder Dutt; Govin Chunder Dutt and The Dutt Family Album; Mary Seyers Carshore; Sir Edwin Arnold; Greece Chunder Dutt; Mary Eliza Leslie

Sir Alfred Comyn LyallAru Dutt; Toru Dutt; John Renton Denning; Rabindranath Tagore; Laurence Hope; Rudyard Kipling; Manmohan Ghose; Joseph Furtado; Aurobindo Ghose; Sarojini Naidu; appendix; Index of Authors; Index of Titles

Sommario/riassunto

Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.Mary Ellis Gibson establishes accurate texts for such well-known poets as Toru Dutt and the early nineteenth-century poet



Kasiprasad Ghosh. The anthology brings together poets who were in fact colleagues, competitors, and influences on each other. The historical scope of the anthology, beginning with the fa