Derozio, Poet of India: The Definitive EditionThis 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, who not 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 that places 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. |
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements | xiii |
Note on the Text | xix |
The India Gazette Poems 18228 | 3 |
Calcutta ought to have its name changed | 9 |
I will not leave my silken thread | 22 |
The Midnight Hour | 28 |
In India Gazette 13 April 1826 | 36 |
3 | 44 |
Regret has neer brought back a vanished day | 266 |
14 | 269 |
Poems in the India Gazette | 273 |
The Sisterinlaw | 280 |
Poems from The Kaleidoscope 182930 | 289 |
Poems in the Bengal Annual 18301 | 296 |
The Rain | 307 |
A Quiet Place | 313 |
her bowers | 59 |
9 | 60 |
Tribute to Henry Meredith Parker | 65 |
Tornout Leaves of a Scrap Book | 79 |
The Bridal | 91 |
The Maniac Widow | 97 |
The roe that on the mountain dwells | 103 |
Heres a Health to thee Lassie | 109 |
Evening in August | 116 |
The Orphan Girl | 123 |
The Fakeer of Jungheera A Metrical Tale And Other Poems | 172 |
Canto Second | 199 |
Notes to Canto First | 227 |
11 | 228 |
The Neglected Minstrel | 242 |
The Deserted Girl | 247 |
The Eclipse | 253 |
Lines on the Unfortunate Death of Henry Neele Esq | 260 |
Resignation Letter and Following Correspondence | 319 |
Assault on Mr Derozio | 327 |
Tit For Tat and the East Indian | 336 |
East Indians Meetings | 342 |
Second East Indians Meeting | 348 |
Last Two Pieces from the East Indian in the India Gazette | 357 |
Poems Published Posthumously | 363 |
The Poetry of Human Life | 369 |
Your hand is on the helmguide on young men | 376 |
Notices Reviews and Responses | 389 |
Review of The Fakeer of Jungeera | 395 |
Review of The Fakeer of Jungheera continued 3 November 1828 | 403 |
India Gazette 7 December 1829 | 414 |
Derozios Poems | 422 |
Material on Derozio Published Posthumously | 424 |
The Weekly Examiner and The Calcutta Courier | 441 |
The Courier and the Late Mr Derozio | 454 |
Copyright | |