The Gandhi Sonnet Sequence sequence   poetry  
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 The Gandhi Sonnet Sequence
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Notes

  • Author note: (The Gandhi Sequence was composed in Quorn, South Australia, in the 1970s, with a number of sonnets connected by passages in a freer verse style. It was converted to a sonnet sequence in Istanbul in the 1980s. The closing acrostic sonnet is a paraphrase, composed in 1992.)

Includes

John Ruskin i "The architect does more than theorize", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy i "When Gandhi read your words, the highly priced", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Ravjibhai Mehta Rajchandra i "Truth candle-lit the calm room of your mind,", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Herman Kallenbach i "Kallenbach was a wealthy architect,", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Jan Christian Smuts i "There was no hatred but they were not close!", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Rajkumar Shukla i "In our synthetic age indigo dyes", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Charles Fr Ere Andrews i "Threadbare from India Gokhale sent", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Gokhale i "Professor and ambassador, a proud", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Sarojini Naidu i "The poetess lived like an open house;", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Mirabehn i "Admiral Slade had fathered Madeleine,", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Mahadev Desai i "Your years flowed like calm writing in the book", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Kasturbhai i "Some trees shade all the garden. Other trees", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Mohammed Ali Jinnah i "Islamic convert with a dying dream", Peter Bladen , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Millefleurs : The Essence of a Thousand Flowers : A Collection of a Thousand Sonnets Composed between 1944 and 1999 1999;
Nathuram Godse i "Godse, for an assassin, seemed a cloud", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Kumari Manubehn Gandhi i "Child like a bud, a distant relative,", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Lord Louis Mountbatten i "The Viceroy came with India torn apart", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Jawaharlal Nehru i "Even on that last day Gandhi would unite", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Harilal i "Harilal was your eldest son, the most", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Vinoba Bhave i "A student of the Scriptures, you enthused", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
King George V i "Symbol of all for which the Empire stood,", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Mohandras Ramachand Gandhi i "Rarely I glimpse you where these words record", Peter Bladen , single work poetry
Mahatma Gandhi i "Mid all that radiance, chaos and despair,", Peter Bladen , single work poetry

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