The Bengali Book Of English Verse

"The Bengali Book of English Verse" is a collection of historical poems, representing about one hundred years of poetical effort. It has its origin in England's introduction of Western education into India. This book was written by various authors and was selected and arranged by Theodore Douglas Dunn, a Scottish oriental scholar and an anthologist of Indian poetry in English. Table of Contents: Asi Prasad Ghose: Dasahara To a Young Hindu Widow Storm and Rain To a Dead Crow Rajnarain Dutt: Song from "Osmyn" Michael Madhusudan Dutt: The Captive Ladie Sonnets Hur Chunder Dutt: Tarra Baee The Flight of Humayun Akbar's Dying Charge Sonnet—India The Rakhi Govin Chunder Dutt: Song from the Bengali To Lord Canning A Farewell to Romance Lines Wordsworth's Poems Home Night on the Ganges Omesh Chunder Dutt: The Chief of Pokurna The Hindu Wife to her Husband Hymn to Shiva Sonnets—War Sonnets—Peace Nobo Kissen Ghose (Ram Sharma): In Memoriam, Michael Dutt Portraits from "The Last Day" Hymn to Durga Robert Knight Maharajah Sir Jotindra Mohun Tagore: An Indian Wreath The Rajput Soldier's Farewell The Gopees' Address to the Kokil Origin of the Kaminee Flower Greece Chunder Dutt: The Maid of Roopnagore Gibraltar Fire Hunters The Hills Samarsi On an Old Romaunt The Terai Shoshee Chunder Dutt: Sivajee The Warrior's Return Address to the Ganges The Requiem of Timour Jelaludeen Khiliji Toru Dutt: Jogadhya Uma Sonnet—The Lotus Our Casuarina Tree Morning Serenade Romesh Chunder Dutt: The Legend of Balaki Mahabharata — Gandhari's Lament Funeral Rites Narendra Nath Dutta (Swami Vivekananda): The Cup Roby Dutt: On Tibet To Britain Sir Asutosh Mookerjee Indians at the Front Profulla Ranjan Das: Refusal The Quest Youth and Age A Lament Sarojini Naidu: The Pardah Nashin To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus The Gift of India Suttee A Challenge to Fate Manmohan Ghose: A Song of Britannia Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose London Baby Poplar, Beech, and Weeping Willow Myvanwy The Garden Passion Elegy

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Excerpt from The Bengali Book of English Verse Many of the poems of this book have been taken from magazines no longer in circulation and from volumes long out of print. In the examination of these sources I have been greatly helped by Mr. S. C. Sanial, Secretary of the Calcutta Historical Society. Mr. J. A. Chapman of the Imperial Library has given much assistance in procuring forgotten but interesting material. Of living authors who have allowed their verse to appear in this collection, my thanks are due to Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, to Mr. P. R. Das and to Professor Manmohan Ghose. With the exception of one extract, reproduced with the permission of Messrs. Elkin Mathews from "Love Songs and Elegies," the poems of Professor Ghose included in this book are published for the first time. For such as have appeared in the "Presidency College Magazine" I am indebted to the managers of that journal. In many cases the copyright of books now out of print rests with the family of the author. Here I have to make many grateful acknowledgments. Mr. J. C. Dutt who introduced me to the "Dutt Family Album," published in 1870 by Messrs. Longmans Green, has allowed the reproduction of the verse of his father, Omesh Chunder Dutt. Mrs. G. C. Dutt, Professor B. C. Dutt and Mr. S. C. Dutt have given me permission to include the poems of their relatives. For the work of Sir Jotindra Mohan Tagore I am indebted to his son, the present Maharaja. The members of the Ramkrishna Mission have given one of the poems of the Swami Vivekananda. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Indian Angles is a new historical approach to Indian English literature. It shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that writers in colonial India--writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities--experienced.

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