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Informationen zum Autor Mary Ellis Gibson is Class of 1952 Distinguished Professor of English! University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her books include "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: Stories of the South by Women Writers!" and "Critical Essays on Robert Browning." Klappentext "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 Indian English poet Kasiprasad Ghose. With accurate and reliable texts! detailed notes on vocabulary! historical and cultural references! and biographical introductions to more than thirty poets! this collection will significantly reshape the understanding of English language literary culture in India. "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." - Victorian Poetry Zusammenfassung Explores 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. The historical scope of the anthology 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....
