The Poetry of British India, 1780–1900
Editor: Máire ní Fhlathúin
978 1 85196 985 2: 234x156mm: £195.00/$350.00
This innovative two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century. The poets engage with India in different ways: some deal with the experience of migration, others respond to the Indian landscape, whilst the wider project of British rule in India also provides a big theme. The lament, the sonnet and the comic verse are favoured forms. This extensive body of literature is not well known and can only be accessed in rare out-of-print nineteenth-century periodicals. The edition will restore a group of marginalized voices to the poetical canon.
The edition will benefit from extensive new editorial matter, including a substantial general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes noting textual variants, chronologies and an index of titles and first lines. It will be important for scholars researching Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Poetry.
Contents
Volume 1: 1780–1840
Elizabeth Ryves, The Hastiniad; an Heroic Poem (1785); Ralph Broome, The Letters of Simkin the Second, Poetic Recorder of All the Proceedings, Upon the Trial of Warren Hastings (1791); ‘Timothy Touchstone’, Tea and Sugar, or, the Nabob and the Creole (1792); Anna Maria Jones, The Poems of Anna Maria (1793); William Jones, The Works of Sir William Jones (1799); Amelia Opie, Hindoo Airs (1800); Anon., Calcutta: A Poem (1811); ‘W.’, India: A Poem in Four Cantos (1812); Anon., The Cadet, a Poem (1814); ‘Quiz’, The Grand Master; or, Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan: A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos (1816); Henry Barkley Henderson, The Goorkha, and Other Poems (1817); Satires in India (1819); Heera, the Maid of the Dekhan (1822); John Leyden, The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr John Leyden: With a Memoir of His Life (1819); Thomas Medwin, Oswald and Edwin: An Oriental Sketch (1820); Sketches in Hindoostan (1821); Anon., Life and Adventures of Shigram-Po (1821); Life and Adventures of James Lovewell (1829); George Anderson Vetch, Poems: Containing Sultry Hours, and Songs of the Exile (1821); James Atkinson, The City of Palaces (1824); Henry Meredith Parker, The Draught of Immortality, and Other Poems (1827); Bole Ponjis (1851); Mrs G G Richardson, Poems (1828); Charles D'Oyly, Tom Raw, the Griffin: A Burlesque Poem in Twelve Cantos (1828); Sarah Roberts, The Winter’s Wreath (1829); Emma Roberts, Oriental Scenes (1832); Anon (‘a Young Civilian of Bengal’), India. A Poem, in Three Cantos (1834); Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book (1834, 1835); Robert Calder Campbell, The Palmer's Last Lesson, and Other Short Poems (1838); James Hutchinson, The Sunyassee, an Eastern Tale: And Other Poems (1838); Maria Nugent, A Journal from the Year 1811 Till the Year 1815 (1839); Reginald Heber, Selections from the British Poets, ed. D L Richardson (1840); Samuel Sloper, The Dacoit, and Other Poems (1840); David Lester Richardson, Literary Leaves (1840); Susanna Blamire, Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842); selections from periodicals including the Calcutta Journal (1818–23), The Bengal Annual (1830–36), The Oriental Observer (1827–41)
Volume 2: 1841–1905
James Henry Burke, Days in the East: A Poem (1842); George Powell Thomas, Poems (1847); Joanna Baillie, Ahalya Baee: A Poem (1849); W R Bingham, The Field of Ferozeshah, in Two Cantos, with other Poems (1848); John Dunbar, Poems (1853); Mary Carshore, Songs of the East (1855); Henry George Keene, Ex Eremo: Poems Chiefly Written in India (1855); Peepul Leaves: Poems Written in India (1879); ‘M. J. J-n’ (Mary J Jourdan), Mind's Mirror: Poetical Sketches (1856); Anon. (‘a Graduate of Oxford’), The Moslem and the Hindoo: A Poem of the Sepoy Revolt (1858); ‘C.D.L.’, Scraps from the Kit of a Dead Rebel (1858); Mary Eliza Leslie, Sorrows, Aspirations, and Legends from India (1858); ‘D.M.’, Scenes from the Late Indian Mutinies (1858); Anon. (James Innes Minchin), Ex Oriente: Sonnets on the Indian Rebellion (1858); ‘C.T.W.’, Lucknow (1860); Gerald Massey, Havelock's March (1861); Charles Arthur Kelly, Delhi and Other Poems (1864); Thomas Benson Laurence, Augusta, a Tale of the Mutiny of 1857, in Three Cantos, and Other Poems (1866); ‘Pips’ (W H Abbot), Lyrics and Lays (1867); William Waterfield, Indian Ballads, and Other Poems (1868); Robert Caldwell, The Chutney Lyrics: A Collection of Comic Pieces in Verse on Indian Subjects (1871); George Augustine Stack, The Songs of Ind (1872); ‘Chili Chutnee’, Social Scraps and Satires (1878); Alice Macdonald Kipling, Echoes, by Two Writers (1884); W T Webb, Indian Lyrics (1884); Edwin Arnold, Lotus and Jewel (1887); Thomas Frank Bignold, Leviora: Being the Rhymes of a Successful Competitor (1888); A C Lyall, Verses Written in India (1889); ‘Aliph Cheem’ (Walter Yeldham), Lays of Ind (1893); G H Trevor, Rhymes of Rajputana (1894); ‘Ram Bux’, Boojum Ballads (1895); Alec McMillan, Divers Ditties, Chiefly Written in India (1895); ‘S’, Pieces, and Other Verse (1899); ‘Laurence Hope’ (Adela Nicolson), The Garden of Kama, and other Love Lyrics from India (1901); Indian Love (1905)