James Henry Cousins - A Study of his works in the light of Theosophical Movement in India and the West

Beschreibung

This work on JH Cousins the Irish Poet Critic and Theosophist is the first full-scale bio-critical study of the author No work has yet been published on this writer in India and abroad Entirely based on primary materials available in the Theosophical Society Library & Archives Adyar Madras where Cousins worked in various capacities since 1915 it throws new light on this rather forgotten literary figure who identified himself with the emergent nationalist milieu of the twenties and thirties of our country This work aims at making an in-depth study of all the interesting corpus of Cousins works including those which are published as magazine articles in various Indian Journals and it provides for the first time a comprehensive and complete annotated Bibliography of this writerOne important dimension of this work is its exploration of Cousins and his contemporary Irish writers interest in Indian mystical thought and the impact of Theosophical Movement on their writings This work studies Cousins involvement in Indias social religious literary and cultural fields and his interaction with eminent Indian writers and artists such as Aurobindo Tagore Sorojini Naidu OC Ganguly and othersAmong its positive findings this work is the first to point out that the initial context for some ofAurobindos literary essays especially what came to be known as The Future Poetry was provided by Cousins This work on the whole seeks to confirm Cousins life and work as a concrete embodiment of Irish-Indian understanding and their independence in efforts to create a new world of values based on spirituality and nationalism 183 pp.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

James Henry Cousins - A Study of his works in the light of Theosophical Movement in India and the West

Verlag

Sharada Pub

Erscheinungsjahr

1994

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

8185616256

ISBN-13

9788185616254

Einband

Soft cover

Zustand

New

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