A wondeful gift item. Like this book, perhaps? The Poetry of British India, 1780-1900 2 Volume Set: c.800 pp: 2011 978 1 85196 985 2: 234x156mm: £195.00/$335.00 Quote This innovative two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century. The poets engage with India in different ways: some deal with the experience of migration, others respond to the Indian landscape, whilst the wider project of British rule in India also provides a big theme. The lament, the sonnet and the comic verse are favoured forms. This extensive body of literature is not well known and can only be accessed in rare out-of-print nineteenth-century periodicals. The edition will restore a group of marginalized voices to the poetical canon. It also includes a selection of Rudyard Kipling's Indian poetry, contextualizing it as a late addition to a long-established tradition of British Indian literature. The edition will benefit from extensive new editorial matter, including a substantial general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes noting textual variants, chronologies and an index of titles and first lines. It will be important for scholars researching Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Poetry. Unquote Visit http://www.pickeringchatto.com/index.php/pc_site/major_works/the_poetry_of_british_india_1780_1900 to see the contents. --- Harshawardhan, regretting that he has no rich godfather. :) Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India