“Competing notions of national character, both English and Indian, populate Mary Ellis Gibson’s new anthology, Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 … which traces the contours of English language poetry across the subcontinent over the course of the long nineteenth century.… Gibson includes many poems sure to provoke fascinating discussion.”
Victorian Poetry
“Both of Gibson’s books (Indian Angles ... Read moreand Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India) stand as shining examples of the strategic comparativist work needed to assess the full array of literary voices in/on India during the long nineteenth century.”
English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920
“The contradictions and connections Gibson reads in the writings of British, Indian, and mixed-race poets from Sir William Jones to Rabindranath Tagore, are on full display in her companion piece anthology of Anglophone poetry, which will introduce many readers to the exciting work of over thirty poets, including those long lost in the liminal space between the British canon and the Indian nationalist canon: lower-class British men and women in India, and mixed-race writers.”
Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900
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