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indian angles ENGLISH VERSE IN COLONIAL India FROM JONES TO TAGORE Mary Ellis Gibson Indian Angles Sri Ra¯ga, c. 1595. From The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. Indian Angles English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore Mary Ellis Gibson Ohio University Press Athens Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 www.ohioswallow.com © 2011 by Ohio University Press All rights reserved To obtain permission to quote, reprint, or otherwise reproduce or distribute material from Ohio University Press publications, please contact our rights and permissions department at (740) 593-1154 or (740) 593-4536 (fax). Printed in the United States of America Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ƒ ™ 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gibson, Mary Ellis, 1952– Indian angles : English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / Mary Ellis Gibson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8214-1941-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-4358-3 (electronic) 1. Anglo-Indian poetry—History and criticism. 2. Indic poetry (English)—History and criticism. 3. India—In literature. 4. Colonies in literature. I. Title. PR9490.4.G53 2011 821.009'954—dc22 2010053693 for Sanjukta Dasgupta and Elizabeth K. Helsinger Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Names xv Introduction 1 Part i Languages, Tropes, and Landscape in the Beginnings of English Language Poetry One Contact Poetics in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta Sir William Jones, Sir John Horsford, and Anna Maria 17 Two Bards and Sybils Landscape, Gender, and the Culture of Dispute in the Poems of H. L. V. Derozio and Emma Roberts 63 Part ii The Institutions of Colonial Mimesis, 1830–57 Three Books, Reading, and the Profession of Letters David Lester Richardson and the Construction of a British Canon in India 101 Four Sighing, or Not, for Albion Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore 137 Part iii Nationalisms, Religion, and Aestheticism in the Late Nineteenth Century Five From Christian Piety to Cosmopolitan Nationalisms The Dutt Family Album and the Poems of Mary E. Leslie and Toru Dutt 181 Six Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Aestheticism in Fin-de-Siècle London Manmohan Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Rabindranath Tagore 227 Epilogue 268 Notes 281 Bibliography 309 Index 325 vii Illustrations Frontispiece: Sri Ra¯ga ii Old Fort Playhouse and Holwell’s Monument, Calcutta 16 Ruins near the Taj Mahal 62 Southwest view of the Fakir’s Rock in the River Ganges 79 David Lester Richardson 100 Kasiprasad Ghosh 136 Michael Madhusudan Dutt, with a portrait of Milton 155 Cover of The Dutt Family Album 180 Rabindranath Tagore. Frontispiece to Gitanjali, by William Rothenstein 226 ix

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In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about fi
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