The Poetry of British India, 1780û1905

This 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 an important theme. The lament, the sonnet and the comic verse are all favoured forms. This extensive body of literature is not well known and can only be accessed in rare out-of-print nineteenth-century periodicals. This edition will restore a group of marginalized voices to the poetical canon.Extensive new editorial matter, including a substantial general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes, textual variants, chronologies and an index of titles and first lines will make this edition a vital resource for scholars researching Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Poetry.