Description: 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
Review Quotes: "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