2010
DOI: 10.1017/s1060150310000173
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The Cosmopolitan Nationalism of Sarojini Naidu, Nightingale of India

Abstract: Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949), the English-language Indian poetess and politician, appears before the viewer in the frontispieces to her first two collections of poetry, The Golden Threshold (1905) and The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring (1912). She presents herself in print, as in her oratory, as both a figure of nineteenth-century verse culture and a cosmopolitan nationalist. The Golden Threshold includes a now well-known introduction by Arthur Symons and a sketch of a young Naidu by J. B. Yea… Show more

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“…92 As Reddy argues, Naidu 'explicitly links politics and national life to poetry' here. 93 And as I have shown throughout this essay, understanding the role the senses play in Naidu's poetry allows us to understand her poetics in the context of her anti-imperialist nationalism.…”
Section: And Explains It Thusmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…92 As Reddy argues, Naidu 'explicitly links politics and national life to poetry' here. 93 And as I have shown throughout this essay, understanding the role the senses play in Naidu's poetry allows us to understand her poetics in the context of her anti-imperialist nationalism.…”
Section: And Explains It Thusmentioning
confidence: 92%