This Is The First Comprehensive Anthology Of English Verse Written By Indians, Compiled And Edited By One Who Himself Was A Poet And A Critic Of Distinction. Such A Volume Is Of Considerable Historical Value And Contemporary Interest, For English Has Been For More Than 150 Years, And Continues To Be, A Vehicle Of Creative Expression For Many Of Our Poets And Writers. The Anthology Includes Selections From 108 Poets From Derozio And Toru Dutt Of The Last Century To A.K. Ramanujan And Kamala Das Of The Recent Times.
Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920. Centering upon the “mapping” of India – both as a regional location and as a poetic ideal – this unique anthology presents poetry from various geographical nodal points of the subcontinent, as well as that written in the imperial metropole of England, to illustrate how the variety of India’s poetical imagining corresponded to the diversity of her inhabitants and geography.
Nissim Ezekiel Is Probably The Most Famous Living Indian Poet In English. Displaying A Dedication Of Heroic Dimensions To His Vocation, He Has Created An Oeuvre Remarkable For Its Range And Depth. He Was Responsible For Spearheading The Modernist Revolution In Indian Poetry In English. All But Divorcing His Wife, Denying His Family Time And Commitment, Creating And Fighting Enemies, Ezekiel Has Served The Muse Indefatigably And Evangelically, And At Great Personal Cost, For He Is As Much Activist For Poetry As Poet. He Has Published The Work Of Others, Edited Journals, Held Offices In Literary Organizations, Selected Poetry For Magazines, Advised Publishing Houses And Helped And Guided Generations Of Poets. Besides, Ezekiel Has Made Significant Contributions As Playwright, Prose Writer, Critic, Translator And Teacher. The Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel Is A Product Of A. Raghu S Close Familiarity With The Work Of The Poet As Well As His Long Interaction With The Man. The Book Carries Out A Thorough Thematic And Stylistic Analysis Of The Corpus Of Ezekiel, Seeking To Effect A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Same. Efforts Are Made To Foreground The Corpus Against The Tradition Of Indian Poetry In English And To Establish The Work Of Ezekiel As The Main Link Between Pre-Independence Indian Poetry In English And Its Post-Independence Counterpart. Ever Willing To Battle It Out, Raghu Takes On Some Of The Biggest Names In The Contemporary Literary World Of India To Craft A Book Which Is Provocatively Brilliant. The Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel Will Remain The Book On Ezekiel S Verse For A Very Long Time To Come.
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” and ending with Indian poets publishing in fin-de-siècle London, will enable teachers and students to understand what brought Kipling early fame and why at the same time Tagore’s Gitanjali became a global phenomenon. Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 puts all parties to the poetic conversation back together and makes their work accessible to American audiences.With accurate and reliable texts, detailed notes on vocabulary, historical and cultural references, and biographical introductions to more than thirty poets, this collection significantly reshapes the understanding of English language literary culture in India. It allows scholars to experience the diversity of poetic forms created in this period and to understand the complex religious, cultural, political, and gendered divides that shaped them.
