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The Poetry of British India, 1780–1905 Vol 1

ABSTRACT

This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |7 pages

William Jones

chapter |3 pages

A Hymn to Camdeo (London: T. Payne, 1784)1

part |14 pages

Elizabeth Ryves

chapter |12 pages

The Hastiniad: An Heroic Poem in Three Cantos (London: J. Debrett, 1785)

part |10 pages

Ralph Broome

chapter |8 pages

From The Letters of Simkin the Second, Poetic Recorder of all the Proceedings, upon the Trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. in Westminster Hall (London: John Stockdale, 1791)1

part |6 pages

‘Timothy Touchstone, Gent.’

chapter |4 pages

From Tea and Sugar, or the Nabob and the Creole: A Poem, by Timothy Touchstone, Gent. (London: J. Ridgway, 1792)

part |7 pages

Anna Maria Jones

chapter |5 pages

From The Poems of Anna Maria (Calcutta: Thomson & Ferris, 1793)

part |13 pages

John Horsford

chapter |5 pages

From A Collection of Poems Written in the East Indies. With Miscellaneous Remarks, in Real Life by J— H— (Calcutta: Joseph Cooper, Telegraph Press, 1797)

chapter |6 pages

From Miscellaneous Poems Written in the East Indies, in Poems in Three Parts (Calcutta: Thomas Hollingbery, Hircarrah Press, 1800)

part |5 pages

Amelia Opie

chapter |3 pages

From Twelve Hindoo Airs with English Words adapted to them by Mrs Opie, and harmonized for one, two, three, and four Voices, with an Accompaniment for the Piano Forte or Harp, by Edward Smith Biggs, 1st pub. 1800 (London: Birchall, c. 1805)1

part |10 pages

John Leyden

chapter |2 pages

From English Minstrelsy: Being a selection of fugitive poetry from the best English authors; with some original pieces hitherto unpublished, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: John Ballantyne; London: John Murray, 1810)

chapter |6 pages

From The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr John Leyden, with Memoirs of his Life, ed. James Morton (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Edinburgh: Constable, 1819)

part |13 pages

John Lawson

chapter |1 pages

From The Maniac, with Other Poems, by John Lawson (London: J. Haddon, 1810)

chapter |7 pages

From Orient Harping: A Desultory Poem, in Two Parts, by John Lawson (London: printed for Samuel Lawson, 1821).3

chapter |3 pages

From Miscellaneous Poems, Chiefly Posthumous, by John Lawson (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1826).8

part |5 pages

‘W’

chapter |3 pages

From A Poem. In Four Cantos (Newcastle: S. Hodgson, 1812)

part |5 pages

William Henry Majendie

chapter |3 pages

From Calcutta: A Poem (London: J. J. Stockdale, 1811)

part |6 pages

Maria Nugent

chapter |4 pages

From A Journal from the Year 1811 till the Year 1815, Including a Voyage to, and Residence in, India, with a Tour to the North-Western Parts of the British Possessions in that Country, under the Bengal Government, by Maria, Lady Nugent (London, 1839)

part |9 pages

John Hobart Caunter

chapter |7 pages

From The Cadet: A Poem, in Six Parts: Containing Remarks on British India. To which is added, Egbert and Amelia; in Four Parts: with Other Poems, by a late resident in the East, vol. 1 (London: Robert Jennings, 1814)

part |16 pages

‘Quiz’

chapter |14 pages

From The Grand Master; or, Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos, by Quiz (London: Thomas Tegg, 1816)

part |15 pages

Henry Barkley Henderson

chapter |8 pages

From The Goorkha, and other Poems, by a young officer (Calcutta, printed for the author, 1817)

chapter |5 pages

From Satires in India (Calcutta: printed for the author by P. Crichton, 1819)

part |11 pages

Writers of the Calcutta Journal

chapter |9 pages

From The Calcutta Journal (27 June 1820)

part |12 pages

Thomas Medwin

chapter |4 pages

From Oswald and Edwin: An Oriental Sketch, by Thomas Medwin (Geneva: J. J. Paschoud, 1820).1

chapter |6 pages

From Sketches in Hindoostan, with Other Poems, by Thomas Medwin (London: C. and J. Ollier / Simpkin and Marshall, 1821)

part |13 pages

Thomas D’Arcy Morris

chapter |9 pages

From the Bombay Gazette (30 August 1820)

chapter |2 pages

From the Oriental Sporting Magazine (August, 1831)

part |8 pages

George Anderson Vetch

chapter |2 pages

From Songs of the Exile, by a Bengal officer (Edinburgh: David Brown, 1820)

chapter |4 pages

From Poems: containing Sultry Hours and Songs of the Exile by George Anderson Vetch (Calcutta: David Brown, 1821)

part |13 pages

The Author of Shigram-Po

chapter |2 pages

From The Life and Adventures of Shigram-Po, Cadet in the Service of the Hon’ble East India Company on the Bengal Establishment, from the First Dawning of his Military Mania to his Retirement on the Half Pay of Lieutenant, after Sixteen Years Service in the Hygeian Climate of India, by the Author of “Occasional Poems,” &c. (Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, 1821)

chapter |9 pages

From The Life and Adventures of James Lovewell Esq: of the Bengal Civil Service, from the Period of his Proceeding to Haileybury College, to the Time of his Retiring from the Service of the Honourable East India Company, as Judge and Magistrate, by the author of “Shigram Poh” and “Occasional Poems” (Calcutta: India Gazette Press, 1829)

part |13 pages

James Atkinson

chapter |4 pages

From The City of Palaces: A Fragment, and Other Poems (Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, 1824)

chapter |7 pages

From The Bengal Annual (1836)

part |12 pages

David Lester Richardson

chapter |2 pages

From Sonnets, and Other Poems, by D. L. Richardson (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1825)

chapter |1 pages

From Sonnets, and other poems, 3rd edn (London: Jones, 1827), rpr. Oriental Herald, vol. 12 (March 1827), pp. 511–12

chapter |2 pages

From Literary leaves, or prose and verse, chiefly written in India, by David Lester Richardson, 2nd edn (London: W. H. Allen, 1840)

chapter |5 pages

From Literary Chit-Chat, with miscellaneous poems and an appendix of prose papers, by David Lester Richardson (London: James Madden; Calcutta: D’Rozario, 1848)

part |33 pages

Henry Meredith Parker

chapter |2 pages

From the Oriental Herald, vol. 13 (May 1827)

chapter |12 pages

From The Draught of Immortality, and Other Poems: With Cromwell, a dramatic sketch, by Henry Meredith Parker (London: J. M. Richardson, 1827)

chapter |17 pages

From Bole Ponjis: containing The Tale of the Buccaneer; A Bottle of Red Ink; The Decline and Fall of Ghosts; and Other Ingredients, by Henry Meredith Parker, Bengal Civil Service, vol. 2 (London: Thacker; Calcutta, St Andrew’s Library, 1851)

part |6 pages

Reginald Heber

chapter |4 pages

From Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824–1825, (with Notes upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, by the late Right Rev. Reginald Heber, D. D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta (London: John Murray, 1828)

part |9 pages

Catherine Eliza Richardson

chapter |7 pages

From Poems, by Mrs G. G. Richardson (Edinburgh: Cadell; London: Simpkin, Marshall; London: William Crofts, 1828)

part |19 pages

Charles D’Oyly

chapter |17 pages

From Tom Raw, the Griffin: a Burlesque Poem in Twelve Cantos: Illustrated by Twenty-Five Engravings, Descriptive of the Adventures of a Cadet in the East India Company’s Service, from the Period of his Quitting England to his Obtaining a Staff Situation in India, by a civilian and an officer on the Bengal establishment (London: R. Ackermann, 1828)

part |5 pages

James Young

chapter |3 pages

From The Bengal Annual (1830)

part |25 pages

Emma Roberts

chapter |12 pages

From Oriental Scenes, Dramatic Sketches and Tales, with Other Poems, by Emma Roberts (Calcutta: printed for the author by P. S. D’Rozario, 1830)

chapter |9 pages

From Oriental Scenes, Sketches, and Tales, by Emma Roberts (London: Edward Bull, 1832).17

part |7 pages

Augustus Prinsep

chapter |5 pages

From the Bengal Annual (1831)

part |17 pages

‘Cheshunt Owen’

chapter |15 pages

From the Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register (October 1831)

part |10 pages

Robert Calder Campbell

chapter |1 pages

From the Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, (May 1831)

chapter |1 pages

From the Calcutta Literary Gazette (8 January 1832)

chapter |1 pages

From the Orient Pearl (1834)

chapter |5 pages

From the Oriental Herald and Colonial Intelligencer vol. 4 (Jul-Dec 1839)