The Lost Poetry of Empire

Overview

Dr Máire Ní Fhlathúin is currently working on The Lost Poetry of Empire, an investigation of poetry published in the periodicals of British India during the nineteenth century.

The first phase of this project focused on the periodicals of Bombay, and was part-funded by a British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant for travel to research in archives in London and Mumbai. It has resulted in a scholarly edition, Thomas D’Arcy Morris, The Griffin (1820) and other works (Romantic Circles, forthcoming).

The second phase of the work, part-funded by an RSVP Curran Fellowship, extends the scope of the project to cover periodicals published across the whole of the Indian sub-continent.