Indo-Anglian Poetry
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Indo-Anglian Poetryor
Indo-English PoetryDr. Rupal Patel
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Definition:•Refers to the body of poetry by poets in India who write in the English language
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Definition:•Whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India
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Definition: (Contd.)•Also refers to the poetry of members of the Indian Diaspora - Sujata Bhatt and Vikram Seth, who were born in India
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Indian Literature in English (IEL)
•It comes under the broad category of the postcolonial literature
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Indian Literature in English (IEL)
•IEL has recent history; It’s about one & half centuries old
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•First book written by Sake Dean Mahomet, titled Travels of Dean Mahomet; published in 1793 in England.
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•Influenced by the Western art form of the novel.
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•RajaRao’s Kanthapura is Indian in terms of its storytelling qualities.
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RabindranathTagore wrote in Bengali and English & translated his Works into
English
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•Other notable
Poets :•Henry Derozio, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Joseph Furtado, Armando Menezes, Toru Dutt, Romesh Chandra Dutt, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu among others
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•Modern Indian Poetry in English
•Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes, A. K. Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Keki Daruwala, Gieve Patel, Jayanta Mahapatra, Arun Kolatkar, Dilip Chitre, Eunice De Souza, P. Lal
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Poets of Indian Diaspora•A generation of exiles include:
•Vikram Seth, Sujata Bhatt, Agha Shahid Ali, Preeti Sengupta and Many Others
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Rabindranath Tagore
•A poet, novelist, musician, and playwright
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Rabindranath Tagore
•His poetic masterpiece Gitanjali won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Rabindranath Tagore
•It is "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"
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•Tagore's style ranges from classical formalism to the comic, visionary, and ecstatic
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•Established by 15th and 16th
century Vaishnava
poets.
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•Awed by the mysticism of the Vyasa, the Bhakti-Sufi mystic Kabir, and Baul ballads
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•Best-known collection, Gitanjali won him his Nobel Prize
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt
•Bengali poet and dramatist
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt
•His Meghnadh Badh Kabya is a tragic epic. It consists of nine cantos
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt
•In terms of style and content it is quite exceptional
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt
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His Major Works Are:•Tilottama •Meghnad Vadh Kabya •Ratnavali •Razia, the sultana of Inde•The Captive Lady •Visions of the Past
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Toru Dutt (1856 – 1877)
•Wrote in English and French
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Toru Dutt (1856 – 1877)
•Made permanent mark even after her premature death at the age of 21
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Toru Dutt
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•A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields French poems into English
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•Ancient Ballads and Legends of
Hindustan collection of
poems
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•Also wrote two novels which were published posthumously
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Sarojini Naidu • The Nightingale of
India (Bharatiya Kokila)
• Child prodigy, freedom fighter, and poet
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Sarojini Naidu
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Sarojini Naidu•The first Indian
woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress
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Sarojini Naidu•First woman to
become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.
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Her Collections of Poetry:• The Golden Threshold • The Bird of Time: Songs of Life,
Death & the Spring • The Broken Wing: Songs of
Love, Death and the Spring • The Sceptred Flute: Songs of
India • The Feather of the Dawn • The Gift of India
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Sri Aurobindo
Ghose•A poet-seer who achieved the highest realisations and endeavoured to share that experience with the rest of humankind
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Sri Aurobindo
Ghose
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Sri Aurobindo
Ghose
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His main works :
•The Life Divine, •The Synthesis of Yoga,
•Essays on the Gita •Savitri
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Savitri, the biggest Epic in English
•An epic work of poetry that he worked on for over 20 years.
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Savitri, the biggest Epic in English
•It is bigger than Milton’s Paradise Lost
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Modern Indo-English Poets
Nissim Ezekiel
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Nissim Ezekiel•Born of Jewish parents in Bene-Israel
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Nissim Ezekiel•Schooled in Bombay•Studied at Khalsa College in Bombay and Birbeck College in London
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Nissim Ezekiel
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Nissim Ezekiel
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As he recalls in ‘Background
Casually’:
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1.2.3.4.5.6.7.
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R. Parthsarathi’s Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets (OUP, 1976 )
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Dominic Francis Moraes known as Dom Moraes
•Born in Bombay, son of Times of India’ former Editor Frank Moraes
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Dom Moraes•Studied for 8 years in Britain at Oxford University
• Published nearly 30 books
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Dom Moraes
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1. A Beginning, his first book of poems, (winner of the Hawthornden Prize)
2. John Nobody,3. Beldam & Others, 4. Absences, and, 5. Collected Poems: 1957-1987
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A K Ramanujan
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A K Ramanujan
•A scholar of Indian literature
•Wrote in both English and Kannada
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A K Ramanujan
•A philologist, folklorist, translator, poet and playwright
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1. The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology
2. Speaking of Siva3. Hymns for the Drowning4. Poems of Love and War5. The Striders6. Selected Poems (OUP, 1976)7. Second Sight
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Keki Daruwalla
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Collections of Poems:
1. Under Orion, 2. Apparition in April, 3. Crossing of Rivers, 4. Winter Poems, 5. The Keeper of The Dead, 6. Landscapes
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•He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award for The Keeper of The Dead.
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•A range of experience generally outside the ambit of poets
•His poetry displays his experiences as a police officer
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•Portrays vividly and minutely Indian socio-political world
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•Exposes the evils of communal tensions, riots, exploitation, greed, criminalization of politics, dowry etc.
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In his poetry we find:World of riot and curfew, Sirens, Warrants, Men nabbed at night, Lathi blows on cowering bodies, Soda bottles and acid bulbs waiting on the roof tops, Press communiques
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Kamala Das or Kamala Suraiyya or Madhavikutty
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Kamala Das Born:1934 – Died:2009
•Wrote in English and Malayalam
•Famous for her short stories, poems and her autobiography, My Story
•On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune.
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She openly and honestly discussed and wrote about the sexual desires of Indian women, which made her an iconoclast of her generation.
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•Her love of poetry began at an early age
•Was influenced by her great uncle, who was a prominent writer
•Her husband supported her decision to support the family's income
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•She wrote during night when everybody slept. She said:"There was only the kitchen table where I would cut vegetables, and after all the plates and things were cleared, I would sit there and start typing"
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•Das was also a syndicated columnist
•Writings on women's issues and child care to politics, were popular
•In poetry, she wrote chiefly of love, its betrayal, and the consequent anguish
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• Abandoned the certainties offered by an archaic, and somewhat sterile, aestheticism for an independence of mind and body at a time when Indian women poets were still expected to write about fantasies of eternal, bloodless, unrequited love
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Kamala Das (Works)
•The Sirens (Asian Poetry Prize winner)
•Summer in Calcutta (Kent's Award winner)
•The Descendants •The Old Playhouse & Other Poems
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Kamala Das (Works) (contd.)•My Story (Autobiography)
•The Anamalai Poems •Only the Soul Knows How to Sing
•Yaa Allah
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Vikram Seth •A very popular writer in the USA
•His verse novels are studied at under-graduate and post- graduate departments of India and the US.
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•A versatile writer•Novels, poetry, libretto, travel writing, children's literature, biography and memoir
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•Studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and Stanford Universities in the UK and the USA
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•A polyglot, he has studied, read and written in several languages, including Welsh, German, French, Mandarin, English, Urdu, German, and Hindi
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•Gay or bisexual thematic concerns and characters
•Love poems addressed to both male and female objects
•Says: “The 'I' in my poems is almost always me"
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•For his A Suitable Boy he was given £250,000, for An Equal Music £500,000 and for Two Lives £1.4 million by his Publishers
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Vikram Seth (Works: Poetry)
• Mappings • The Humble
Administrator's Garden • All You Who Sleep Tonight • Beastly Tales • Three Chinese Poets
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Sujata Bhatt•A native speaker of Gujarati
•Most prominent is "Search for My Tongue“, which is compulsory study for many fourteen to sixteen-year-olds in the United Kingdom.
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•Born in Ahmedabad, brought up in Pune until 1968
• emigrated to the United States
•An MFA •Was writer-in-residence •Visiting fellow at Dickinson
College, Pennsylvania
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•Currently works as a freelance writer and has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets
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Themes:•Love and violence•Explores issues such as
racism and the interaction between Asian, European, and North American culture
•The subject matter of her poetry has ranged from political strife to eroticism
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Poetic Works: •Pure Lizard •The Colour of Solitude•Augatora•Point No Point•The Stinking Rose •Monkey Shadows•Bruzinem
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