Adela Florence Nicolson (nÃÆ'Â © e Cory) (April 9, 1865 - October 4, 1904) is an English poet who wrote under the nickname Laurence Hope .
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Biography
He was born on April 9, 1865 in Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire, the second child of three daughters to Colonel Arthur Cory and Fanny Elizabeth Griffin. His father worked in the British army in Lahore, and thus he grew up by his relatives in England. He went to India in 1881 to join his father. His father was the editor of Lahore's arm of the Civil and Military Gazette, and he was most likely to give Rudyard Kipling (who was his contemporary daughter) his first job as a journalist. Her sisters Annie Sophie Cory and Isabel Cory also pursue writing careers: Annie writes popular, racist novels under the pseudonym "Victoria Cross," while Isabel assists and substitutes for their father as editor of Sind Gazette. i>.
Adela married Colonel Malcolm Hassels Nicolson, then twice his age and commander of the 3rd Battalion, Regiment Baluch in April 1889. A talented linguist, he introduced it to his love for India and local customs and foods, which he began share. This broadly gave the couple a reputation for being eccentric. They stayed at Mhow for almost ten years. After he died in a prostate operation, Adela, who tended to be depressed from childhood, committed suicide by poisoning himself and dying at the age of 39 on October 4, 1904 in Madras. His son Malcolm published his book Selected Poems posthumously in 1922.
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In 1901, he published Garden of Kama , published a year later in America with the title Lyrics of Indian Love . He attempted to pass this as a translation from various poets, but this claim soon fell in suspicion. His poetry often uses the images and symbols of the poets of the North-West Frontiers of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. He is one of the most popular Edwardian-era romantic poets. His poetry is usually about unrequited and frequent love and loss, death following such an unpleasant state. Many of them have autobiographical air or recognition.
Details about his life are not easy to find because they have relatively no letters, but Lesley Blanch, in his book Under A Lilac-Bleeding Star , includes some biographical information taken from his unpublished memoirs written by him. son. In Diary and Letters from India , Violet Jacob gives some information about Nicolsons and their environment, although most of what is known about Violet, when she is known, must be gathered through her poetry. Although Nicolson used fictitious and fictional characters, it was obvious to some of his contemporaries that his poems were personal, even confession. "Dedication to Malcom Nicolson" who started his final collection, written shortly before the suicide, gave an ambiguous rebuttal of the origins of his poetry autobiography:
I, who has a lighter love wrote many verses,
Publicly reported there has never been a word inspired by you,
Lest the stranger's lips should practice carelessly Things are sacred and too precious to me.Your soul is glorious; through these fifteen years
Have a familiar eye, do not find any defects or defects,
Stern for yourself, your partner's mistakes and fears Generosity that proved to be just law.Little joy is me for you; before we met
Sadness has left you too miserable to be saved There's no use in my love - it's useless because it's sorry It pours out my hopeless life in your grave.
Popular culture adaptation
- Life and poetry Adela Nicolson has inspired a variety of adaptations, beginning with music composer Amy Woodforde-Finden's arrangement of four songs from The Garden of Kama to music. The most popular is the Kashmiri song. After the songs proved successful, Woodforde-Finden added four lyric settings from Nicolson's 1903 book Stars of the Desert. African-American composer Harry Burleigh published Five Songs of Laurence Hope in 1915.
- Mary Pickford Less Than the Dust film (1916) seems to be inspired by poetry and song of the same title. Stoll Pictures released the movie titled The Indian Love Lyrics in 1923.
- Fictional literary works based on Nicolson's life or poetry include Somerset Maugham's The Colonel's Lady Creatures of Circumstance (1947). It was also adapted into a movie segment of Quartet (1948). Subsequent fictional works include Mary Talbot Cross's Knows no Tears (1996) and the Orchard Team That Bloody Female Poet (a book before Google) (2011).
- In the 1910s and 1920s, dances based on The Garden of Kama were created and performed by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Martha Graham and Michio Ito.
References
- Bickley, Francis L. and Sayoni Basu, "Nicolson nee Cory, Adela Florence pseud. Laurence Hope (1865-1904)," 2004 National Biography Dictionary.
- Blanch, Lesley. "Laurence Hope - A Shadow in the Sunlight." Under Lilac-Bleeding Star: Travel and Tourists. London: John Murray, 1963: 184-208.
- Carter, Jennifer. "Love Among the Lotuses," NLA News (Australian National Library) 12: 2 (November 2001).
- Cross, Mary Talbot, Fate Do not Know Tears . Shalimar Press, 1996.
- Jealous, John. "'Laurence Hope' (1865-1904)." 1890s: Encyclopedia of English Literature, Art, and Culture. New York: Garland, 1993. 283-84.
- Marx, Edward, "Violet (Adela Florence) Nicolson." Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Ed. Paul Schlueter and June Schlueter. New York: Garland, 1999. 476-77.
- Marx, Edward. "'Laurence Hope' (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)." The End of the Twelve And A Twenty-Twentieth-Century English Poet (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 240). Ed. William Thesing. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. 88-93.
- Marx, Edward. "Reviving Laurence Hope." Female Poems, Romantic End to End of Victoria: Sex and Genre. Ed. Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain. London; New York: Macmillan Press, 1998.
- Marx, Edward. "Decadent Exoticism and Female Poets." Women and Aestheticism English. Ed. Kathy Psomiades and Talia Schaffer. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.
- Marx, Edward. "The Exotic Transgressions of 'Laurence Hope'," in The Idea of ​​a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetry . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
- Orchard, Tim. The Bloody Poet . Live Fiction, 2011.
- Roy, Anindyo. "'Gold and Bracelet, Water and Waves': Signature and Translation in Indian Poem Adela Cory Nicolson," Women: cultural reviews 13.2 (2002): 145-68.
External links
- Poems Selected from Adela Florence Nicolson Cory
- Works by Adela Florence Nicholson in Project Gutenberg
- Works by Adela Florence Nicolson on LibriVox (public domain audiobook)
- Laurence Hope poems in Poetry Archive
- Laurence Hope bibliography
- Less Than the Dust (1916) on IMDb
- The Indian Love Lyrics (1923) on IMDb
- Laurence Hope Notes
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