Derozio, Poet of India The Definitive Edition

by Derozio, Henry; Chaudhuri, Rosinka

• ISBN13: 9780195669091
• ISBN10: 0195669096
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This representative collection, the first of its kind, presents the majority of Derozio's poems with notes, and all available correspondence and journalism along with a detailed Introduction and critical comments. Apart from the two volumes of poetry that Derozio published in his lifetime,which have never been widely disseminated in their entirety, this edition brings together a number of new poems, essays, thoughts, and letters written to newspapers published both in his lifetime and posthumously. As a result, a fresh new picture emerges of a young man, energetic and inspired, whonot only propelled a section of the Bengali elite into revolutionary reformism through his teaching, as is well known, but who also embodied, in his writing and philosophy, the birth of the modern. This book attempts to present a man and his moment in an entirely new and significant reading thatplaces Derozio at the conceptual beginnings of an imagined nation that had begun to be conjured into existence through metaphor and image, rhetoric and philosophy, poetic practice, and political activism.

Author Biography

Rosinka Chaudhuri is Fellow in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Epigraph

Introduction

Editors Note

India Gazette Poems (1822-8)

India Gazette Prose (1822-8)

Poems, By H.L.V. Derozio, Calcutta: 1827

The Fakeer of Jungheera, A Metrical Tale, And Other Poems. Calcutta: 1828

The Years 182931: The Leporello Poems

Poems in The Kaleidoscope: 1829, 1830

Poems in the Bengal Annual: 1830

Resignation Letter and following correspondence

India Gazette Correspondence: Assault on Mr Derozio

Last Items supposed to have been written by Derozio in the East Indian

Posthumous Publications: Poems

Prose

Bibliography

From the India Gazette: Reviews, Editorials, Letters

Posthumously in the India Gazette: Notices, Advertisements, Obituaries

A Debate on the Death and Religious Convictions of Derozio, 1840

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