The Fakeer of Jungheera

The Fakeer of Jungheera is a long poem written by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, first published in 1829.[1] The poem is 2,050 lines long, and was published when Derozio was only 19.[2] It is notable for being the first long poem written by any Indian in the English language,[2] and forms a central part of Derozio's legacy as one of the founding Anglo-Indian poets.[3] It has been compared to Lord Byron's so-called "Turkish Tales" like The Giaour and to Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem "The Improvisatrice."[1]

References
  1. Black, Joseph; Conolly, Leonard; Flint, Kate; Grundy, Isobel; Lepan, Don; Liuzza, Roy; McGann, Jerome J.; Prescott, Anne Lake; Qualls, Barry V.; Waters, Claire, eds. (4 December 2014). The Broadview anthology of British literature (Third ed.). Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 978-1-55481-202-8. OCLC 894141161.
  2. Paranjape, Makarand R. (2013). ""East Indian" Cosmopolitanism: Henry Derozio's Fakeer of Jungheera and the Birth of Indian Modernity". Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. pp. 41–64. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4661-9_3. ISBN 978-94-007-4660-2.
  3. Gokak, Vnayak Krishna, ed. (1970). The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry: 1828–1965. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 81-260-1196-3.



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