Excerpt from Life and Letters of Toru Dutt
Among the poets whom the gods have loved there are, surely, few more remarkable than Toru Dutt. Writing in a foreign language, seeking her models in a foreign literature, interpreting a foreign religion, she built up in three years an eternity of fame. In an Introductory Memoir prefixed to Toru's Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Mr. Edmund Gosse wrote in 1881 If Toru Dutt were alive, she would still be younger than any recognized European writer, and yet her fame, which is already considerable, has been entirely posthumous.' The great French critic James Darmesteter says of her: This daughter of Bengal, so admirably and so strangely gifted, Hindu by race and tradition, an Englishwoman by education, a Frenchwoman at heart, poet in English, prose-writer in French who at the age of eighteen made India acquainted with the poets of France in the rhyme of England, who blended in herself three souls and three tradi tions, and died at the age of twenty (sic), in the full bloom of her talent and on the eve of the awakening of her genius, presents in the history of literature a phenomenon without parallel.'
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This captivating biography reconstructs the life and work of Toru Dutt, a 19th-century Indian poet and writer who composed lyric verse in English at a time when it was rare for women, especially Indian women, to do so. The author meticulously pieces together Toru's story through letters, reminiscences, and an analysis of her published works, revealing a remarkable figure whose literary achievements transcended cultural boundaries and continue to inspire generations of readers. By examining the social context of Toru's life and tracing her influences, this biography not only celebrates the life of an extraordinary writer but also sheds light on the complex literary and cultural exchanges between East and West during a time of great change. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780259548645_0
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