| Description |
lvi, 507 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: FOREWORD: George Otto Trevelyan, An Indian Railway and The Gulf Between Us -- Early Decades: -- John Ruskin, Conclusion to Inaugural Lecture -- Anthony Trollope, Aboriginals -- John Beames, Civilian Memoirs -- David Livingstone, The Meeting with Stanley -- Henry Morton Stanley, The Meeting with Livingstone -- Marcus Clarke, from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems and From the Clyde to Braidwood -- Edwin Arnold, from The Light Of Asia -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Defence of Lucknow and Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition -- Edward Willmot Blyden, from The Aims and Methods of a Liberal Education for Africans -- Torus Dutt, A mon pere, Sonnet - Baugmaree -- Sonnet - The Lotus; Or Casuarina Tree from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan -- John Seeley, from The Expansion of England -- Isabella Bird, Letter from Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula -- H. Rider Haggard, The Legend of Solomon's Mines -- Sara Jeannette Duncan, Colonials and Literature -- Rudyard Kipling, His Chance in Life, Christmas in India, Giffen's Debt, mandalay, What the People Said -- A.E. Housman, 1887 -- J. A. Froude, from The English in the West Indies -- J. J. Thomas, from Froudacity -- Flora Annie Steel, The Duties of the Mistress, Bopluchi, In the Permanent Way -- G. A. Henty, A Pipe of Mystery -- 1880s AND 1890s CANADIAN POETRY: -- Isabella Valancy Crawford, War, Said the Canoe -- Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, A Vagabond Song -- Charles G. D. Roberts, The Pea-Fields, My Trees -- Archibald Lampman, Late November, Among the Orchards -- Duncan Campbell Scott, The Onondaga Madonna -- The Bulletin Writers Of The 1890s: -- A.B. ("Banjo") Paterson, Clancy of the Overflor, The Travelling Post Office, Old Australian Ways -- Henry Lawson, The Drover's Wife -- Barbara Baynton, The Tramp -- A. G. Stephens, from Introductory to The Bulletin Story Book -- Fin De Siecle: -- Swami Vivekananda, from The Ideal of a Universal Religion -- Robert Louis Stevenson, The King of Apemans: The Royal Trader -- Hugh Clifford, Up Country -- Joseph Chamberlain, The True Conception of Empire -- Olive Schreiner, from Trooper Halket of Mashonaland -- Mary Kingsley, Black Ghosts -- Joseph Conrad, An Outpost of Progress -- William Watson, Jubilee Night in Westmorland -- Rudyard Kipling, Recessional, The White Man's Burden -- The South African War (1899-1902): -- Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Transvaal -- Alfred Austin, To Arms! -- Mrs Ernest Ames, An ABC for Baby Patriots -- Thomas Hardy, Departure, A Christmas Ghost-Story, Drummer Hodge -- W.E . Henley, Remonstrance, Pro Rege Nostro, The Choice of the Will from For England's Sake -- A., E. Housman, Grenadier -- Henry Newbolt, Vitai Lampada, Peace, April on Waggon Hill, Srahmandazi -- William Watson, Rome and Another, The Inexorable Law, The True Imperialism from For England -- Rudyard Kipling, The Lesson -- J.A. Hobson, The Political Significance of Imperialism -- Later Decades: -- Cornelia Sorabji, Love and Death -- Lady Mary Anne Barker, from Colonial Servants -- Sarojini Naidu, Village Song, Jumyaun to Zobeida, Ode to H. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, To India from The Golden Threshold -- Songs of My City, Song of Radha the Milkmaid -- An Anthem of Love from The Bird of Time -- George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon, The British Empire -- Sri Aurobindo, The Object of Passive Resistance -- Charles Studart Parnell, Transiit, Non Perit, Hymn to the Mother, Revelation, rebirth -- Alice Perrin, The Rise of Ram Din -- James Joyce, Ireland at the Bar -- Edmund Candler, from Kashi -- Stephen Leacock, Back to the Bush -- Dorothea Fairbridge, Pamela -- J.E. Casely Hayford, As in a Glass Darkly and African Nationality from Ethiopia Unbound -- Claude McKay, Oh General Jackson, the other day, I have a News from Walter Jekyll's Jamaican Song and Story -- Cudjoe Fresh, from de Lecture: Old England, My Native Land, My Home; from Songs of Jamaica: The Apple-Woman's Complain; from Constab Ballads: If We Must Die -- Rabindranath Tagore, Poems from Gitanjali -- William Butler Yeats, Introduction to Gitanjali -- B. E. Baughan, Pipi on the Prowl -- Katherine Mansfield, How Pearl Button was Kidnapped, To Stanislwaw Wyspianski, The Wind Blows -- Solomon T. Plaatje, One Night with the Fugitives -- AFTERWORD: Leonard Woolf, Pearls and Swine -- Explanatory Notes -- Biographies -- Appendix -- Publishers' Acknowledgements -- Index |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [xliv]-liii) and index |
| Subject |
Commonwealth literature (English)
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Imperialism -- Literary collections.
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English literature -- 19th century.
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English literature -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Commonwealth countries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029004 -- Literary collections.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001634
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United Kingdom -- Colonies http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056632 -- Literary collections.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001634
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| Author |
Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-
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| LC no. |
98010539 |
| ISBN |
0192832654 paperback alkaline paper |
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