Publisher's Synopsis
We hear very little about the woman-poets of India, but there are many, chief among them the talented Sarojini Naidu, who writes in English. Her latest collection, "The Bird of Time, Songs of Life, Death and the Spring," is published with an introduction by Edmund Gosse, and a portrait of the author. Mr. Gosse writes that while Sarojini Naidu's early poetry was largely an echo of the great English bards, her mature work "springs from the very soil of India; her spirit, although it employs the English language as its vehicle, has no other tie with the West." Her folk-songs are rarely beautiful and her serious poems reveal a burning fervency that is fixed upon the pursuit of the Eternal. In her "Salutation to the Eternal Peace," she turns away from the clamor of the world to the wonders of God's manifestation of eternal peace in the soul, and the spiritual universe:
-"The American Review of Reviews," Vol. 53 [1916]
