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satisfy his own instinct. In 1918 he became known
to a small circle of English readers through a
volume of Sonnets published in London by Messrs.
Erskine MacDonald, and it was in 1933 that I
edited some of his ' Islamic Poems.' But there
is a large collection of his poems yet to be
published, and I hope to be able to edit them
before long.
I am convinced that not many among us have
been able, like him, ' to imbibe the spirit of great
literature. From Classical and Romantic poetry,
from history, philosophy and religion—from all
these sources has flowed into him that inspiring and
sustaining force which may be said to be his inner
life/ His poems, with but a few exceptions, show
that some irrepressible impulse in him is seek-
ing expression for what cannot be fully expressed
in words.. .The other day I came across a little
acrostic which was his tribute to Rabindranath
Tagore, and to my mind, it contains a true des-
cription of himself :
" To find his God he learned to love
All life that God hath made ;
God's light shone round him from above
O'er all for which he prayed,
Revealing in life's perfect whole
Eternal Beauty to his soul."
This was Nizamat Jung's own quest; and
his poetry, as some competent judges have ob-
served, " reveals the spirit of a true poet which
soars from the world of phenomena into the
realm of ideals, upborne by a love so pure and