Romantic Literary Influence on the Rise of Indian Poetry in English
Mr. Bhavdip Chavda
Department of Communication Skills, MEFGI, Rajkot
(An Excerpt from Ph.D Research)
Indian Poetry
in English rose during the nineteenth century when India was a colonised
country. Forgotten for a century, today, this poetry has generated new
interests with stimulating questions as: what could be reasons and sources that
gave birth to completely a new realm of poetry which did not have any
predecessors? What could be influences that had positively impacted and enriched
the art of poetry writing in a foreign tongue?
With hypotheses
to the questions, the present research commences with three major discussions:
firstly, discussing the birth of Indian Writing in English, its historical
development and its nomenclature. Secondly, by drawing contemporary parallels
between India and Europe. Lastly by exploring theoretical aspects of Influence
Studies of Comparative Literature. After such prefatory discussions, it closely
and critically studies three major Indian poets and their poetry in English in
detail. These poets are Henry Derozio, Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Toru Dutt. Each
of these poets has completely been studied with the contextual approach leading
to highlight English literary influence of Romanticism in individual chapters.
The major Romantic perceptions/elements that are highlighted in the Indian
poetry are Nature, Supernaturalism, Mysticism, Love, Separation, Medieval and
Hellenism, Nationalism, Humanism and Freedom along with the stylistic features
of the Romantic poets.
The first
generation Indian poets were successful in expressing their passions in a
foreign language but they were largely under the dominative spell of English Romanticism.
English Romanticism supplemented the rise of Indian poetry in English with
their themes and narrative techniques and thus aided it to achieve the poetic
excellence.
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