Manmohan Ghose
Manmohan Ghose (19 January 1869[1] – 4 January 1924) was an Indian poet and one of the first from India to write poetry in English. He was a brother of Sri Aurobindo.
Background
Manmohan Ghose was born the son of Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose by his wife, Swarnalata Devi Ghose (
Career
He was educated at The Manchester Grammar School (1881–84), St Paul's school in London (1884–87) and won an open scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford.
His work was published in Primavera:Poems by Four Authors (1890), with
In 1893, after his father's death, Ghose returned to India and took a series of teaching posts at
His daughter left for London and met Laurence Binyon, who helped her edit Songs of love and death, which was published in 1926.
Notes
References
- ISBN 978-81-7955-135-6.
- ^ Bandyopadhyay, Amritalal, Rishi Aurobindo, 1964, Biswas Publishing House, p 6
- ^ a b Heehs (2008), pp. 3–7, 10
- ^ a b Thakur (2004), p. 3
Bibliography
- Heehs, Peter (2008), The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-14098-0
- Thakur, Bimal Narayan (2004), Poetic Plays of Sri Aurobindo, Northern Book Centre, ISBN 978-81-7211-181-6
- Select Poems of Manmohan Ghose (1975), edited by Lotika Ghose.
- Manmohan Ghose (Modern Indo-English poet) (1990) by Lotika Ghose, Tr. Gulwant Farigh in the Makers of Indian Literature Series.
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