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Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913
Mary Ellis . Ed(S): Gibson
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Hardback. Editor(s): Gibson, Mary Ellis. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BM; DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 654.
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 famous Orientalist Sir William Jones and the anonymous “Anna Maria” ... Read more
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 famous Orientalist Sir William Jones and the anonymous “Anna Maria” ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821419427
SKU
V9780821419427
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About Mary Ellis . Ed(S): Gibson
Mary Ellis Gibson is Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature at Colby College. Her books include Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore (Ohio, 2011); History and the Prism of Art: Browning’s Poetic Experiments; and Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. She has also edited several other anthologies, including New Stories by Southern Women; Homeplaces: ... Read more
Reviews for Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913
“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.”
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