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Sir Nizamat Jung's poems printed for private
circulation some years ago, were arranged by him
in six groups :
Sonnets, Occasional Poems (including war
poems), Death of Socrates and Other Poems,
Rural Lyrics and Lyrical Poems and Islamic
Poems. Each group, if separately dealt with,
will require more space than I have allotted
to each chapter in this sketch. I shall, there-
fore, content myself with giving a few typical
specimens from other groups and quoting a
few authoritative opinions regarding them.
The Sonnets of 1918, originally styled 'Love's
Withered Wreath, ' after a line from Shelley's
Epipsychidion—and Sonnets of Mystic Love and
Beauty, as I should like to call them—arrest the
reader's attention at once, and have elicited high
praise.
" The Nawab's Sonnets depict the very
soul of chivalry and self-eclipsing devotion,
and they contain lines which claim an equal
fellowship with the works of those whose
names are sonorous in the spheres of poetic
genius," was the remark of Mr, Meredith Starr.
And The Poetry Review wrote :
" The Nawab writes of his love as Dante
wrote of Beatrice... There is a blaze of
beauty in all his Sonnets, and not a little noble
wisdom... | jdoiibt if Tagore himself could
have written more beautiful Sonnets."
" Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, a well-known
American essayist and poet, wrote to a friend,