Toru Dutt | |
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 Portrait of Toru Dutt | |
| Born | 4 March 1856 |
| Died | 30 August 1877 (aged 21) |
| Resting place | Maniktalla Christian Cemetery, Kolkata |
| Nationality | British Indian |
| Occupation | Poet |
Tarulatta Datta, popularly known as Toru Dutt (Bengali: তরু দত্ত; 4 March 1856 – 30 August 1877) was an Indian Bengali poet and translator from British India, who wrote in English and French.[1][2] She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature, alongside Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831), Manmohan Ghose (1869–1924), and Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949).[3] She is known for her volumes of poetry in English, Sita, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876) and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), and for a novel in French, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers (1879). Her poems explore themes of loneliness, longing, patriotism and nostalgia. Dutt died at the age of 21 of tuberculosis.[4]
- ^ Gosse, Edmund (1913). "Toru Dutt." In: Critical Kit-kats. London: William Heinemann, pp. 197–212.
- ^ Chapman, Mrs E. F. (1891). Sketches of Some Distinguished Indian Women. W.H. Allen & Company, Limited.
- ^ Birch, Dinah, ed. (2009). "Anglo-Indian Literature". The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.). Oxford UP.
- ^ Chapman, Alison (September 2014). "Internationalising the Sonnet: Toru Dutts "Sonnet – Baugmaree"". Victorian Literature and Culture. 42 (3): 595–608. doi:10.1017/S1060150314000163. ISSN 1060-1503. S2CID 162276008.