Ram Sharma (1837–1918) was a nineteenth-century
Indo-Anglian poet
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who alternately criticized and praised the government in his poems and newspaper articles. He began his literary career in the 1860s but pursued steady writing only after his retirement from a government post in 1878. He practiced Yoga for 40 years.
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Poetry
His poem, ''Ode on The Meeting of
Congress
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Allahabad, on 26 December 1888'' was considered one of his most powerful poems.
Some of his other poems are:
* ''Willow Drops'', published 1874-75
* ''Our Greetings to His Royal Highness Albert Victor of Wales'', which first brought him to prominence
* ''Siva Ratri'', which has similarities to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
* ''Bhagobati Gita'', a Keatsian expression of Ram Sharma's mystical perceptions
* ''The Last Day'', a dream fantasy, together with Siva Ratri and Bhagobati Gita are the most expressive of Ram Sharma's genius and talent.
* ''Unheard Melodies'', a fluent and elegant expression of his deeper spiritual experiences
* ''Mohinee''
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* ''Stanzas to Lord Lytton's Infant Son''
* ''Song of the Indian Conservative''
* ''To Our Pseudo-social Reformers''
* ''India's Welcome---To Mr Bradlaugh and Her Other English Friends''
* ''India to Britain''
* ''To England''
* ''The Jolly Beggars''
* ''In Memoriam: Michael Madhusudan Dutt and A Prayer''.
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References
External links
Early Indian Poetry in English
An Anthology: 1829-1947/edited by Eunice De Souza. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005, xxxi, 341 p., .
1837 births
Poets in British India
English-language poets from India
1918 deaths
Indian male poets
19th-century Indian poets
20th-century Indian poets
19th-century British male writers
20th-century Indian male writers
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