Editing Sarojini Naidu (section)

==Writing career==
Naidu began writing at the age of 12. Her play, ''Maher Muneer'', written in [[Persian language|Persian]], impressed the [[Nizam]] of [[Hyderabad State|Kingdom of Hyderabad]].{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}

Naidu's poetry was written in English and usually took the form of [[lyric poetry]] in the tradition of British [[Romanticism]], which she was sometimes challenged to reconcile with her Indian nationalist politics.<ref name="Reddy2010" /> She was known for her vivid use of rich sensory images in her writing, and for her lush depictions of India.<ref name="Iyer" /><ref name="Jagadisan">{{cite book|author=Jagadisan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_NShyA_s7YC|title=A thing of beauty|publisher=Orient Blackswan|year=2001|isbn=9788125016250|page=55|access-date=3 July 2013}}</ref> She was well-regarded as a poet, considered the "Indian [[W. B. Yeats|Yeats]]".<ref name="Shekhani2017">{{Cite journal |last=Shekhani |first=Ummekulsoom |date=3 April 2017 |title=Sarojini Naidu—The Forgotten Orator of India |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07350198.2017.1282223 |journal=Rhetoric Review |language=en |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=139–150 |doi=10.1080/07350198.2017.1282223 |s2cid=151326415 |issn=0735-0198}}</ref>

Her first book of poems was published in London in 1905, titled "''[[The Golden Threshold]]"''.<ref name="Sarkar">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4NcHdrqUJpYC&q=%22The+Broken+Wings%22+was+published+1905+naidu&pg=PA11 |title=Critical response to Indian poetry in English |publisher=Sarup & Sons |year=2008 |isbn=978-81-7625-825-8 |editor-last=Sarkar, Amar Nath |location=New Delhi |pages=11 |editor-last2=Prasad, Bithika}}</ref> The publication was suggested by [[Edmund Gosse]], and bore an introduction by [[Arthur Symons]].<!--<ref name="Reddy2010" />--> It also included a sketch of Naidu as a teenager, in a ruffled white dress, drawn by [[John Butler Yeats]].<!--<ref name="Reddy2010" />--> Her second and most strongly nationalist book of poems, ''[[The Bird of Time (poetry)|The Bird of Time]]'', was published in 1912.<ref name="Reddy2010" /> It was published in both London and New York, and includes "[[In the Bazaars of Hyderabad]]".<ref name="BirdTime">{{Cite book |last=Naidu |first=Sarojini |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000634356 |title=The bird of time; songs of life, death & the spring |date=1912 |publisher=John Lane company; W. Heinemann |editor-last=Gosse |editor-first=Edmund |location=New York, London}}</ref> The last book of new poems published in her lifetime, ''The Broken Wing'' (1917). It includes the poem "The Gift of India", which exhorted the Indian people to remember the sacrifices of the [[Indian Army during World War I]], which she had previously recited to the Hyderabad Ladies' War Relief Association in 1915.<!--<ref name="Reddy2010" />--> It also includes "Awake!", dedicated to [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], which she read as the conclusion to a 1915 speech to the Indian National Congress to urge unified Indian action.<ref name="Reddy2010" /> A collection of all her published poems was printed in New York in 1928.<ref name="FirstEdition">{{Cite web |title=The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India |url=https://thefirstedition.com/product/the-sceptred-flute-songs-of-india/ |access-date=7 October 2021 |website=The First Edition Rare Books |language=en-US}}</ref> After her death, Naidu's unpublished poems were collected in ''The Feather of the Dawn'' (1961), edited by her daughter [[Padmaja Naidu]]''.<ref name="Nasta2012">{{Cite book |last=Nasta |first=Susheila |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgYGlJI9vrUC&q=The%20Feather%20of%20The%20Dawn%20Padmaja&pg=PR4 |title=India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858–1950 |date=16 November 2012 |isbn=978-0-230-39271-7 |page=213 |publisher=Springer |author-link=Susheila Nasta |access-date=13 February 2016}}</ref>''

Naidu's speeches were first collected and published in January 1918 as ''The Speeches and Writings of Sarojini Naidu'', a popular publication which led to an expanded reprint in 1919<ref name="NaiduSpeeches1919-9">{{Cite book |last=Naidu |first=Sarojini |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100500199 |title=Speeches and writings. |date=1919 |publisher=G.A. Nateson & Co. |edition=2nd |location=Madras |page=9}}</ref> and again in 1925.<ref name="NaiduSpeeches1925">{{Cite book |last=Naidu |first=Sarojini |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001868048 |title=Speeches and writings of Sarojini Naidu. |date=1925 |publisher=G.A. Natesan & co. |edition=3rd |location=Madras}}</ref>

===Works===
* 1905: ''The Golden Threshold'', London: William Heineman<ref>{{Cite book|last=Naidu|first=Sarojini|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001725616|title=The golden threstold|date=1905|publisher=Heineman|location=London}}</ref>
* 1915: ''[[The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring]]'', London: William Heineman and New York: John Lane Company<ref name="BirdTime" />
* 1917: ''The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death and Destiny''<ref name="vkg313">Vinayak Krishna Gokak, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC ''The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828–1965)'', p 313, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025172652/https://books.google.com/books?id=WLE8GVsAfEMC&printsec=frontcover |date=25 October 2022 }}, {{ISBN|81-260-1196-3}}, retrieved 6 August 2010</ref><ref name="Das2010">Sisir Kumar Das, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC "A History of Indian Literature 1911–1956: Struggle for Freedom: Triumph and Tragedy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025172644/https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&printsec=frontcover |date=25 October 2022 }}, p 523, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1995), {{ISBN|81-7201-798-7}}; retrieved 10 August 2010</ref>
* 1919: "The Song of the Palanquin Bearers", lyrics by Naidu and music by [[Martin Shaw (composer)|Martin Shaw]], London: Curwen<ref name="Shaw1917">{{Cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Martin |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c034141508 |title=The Song of the Palanquin Bearers |last2=Naidu |first2=Sarojini |publisher=Curwen |year=1917 |location=London|hdl=2027/uc1.c034141508 }}</ref>
* 1920: ''The Speeches and Writings of Sarojini Naidu'', Madras: G.A. Natesan & Co.<ref name="NaiduSpeeches1919">{{Cite book |last=Naidu |first=Sarojini |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100500199 |title=Speeches and writings. |date=1919 |publisher=G.A. Nateson & Co. |location=Madras}}</ref>
* 1922: Editor, ''[[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], An Ambassador of Unity: His Speeches & Writings 1912–1917'', with a biographical "Pen Portrait" of Jinnah by Naidu, Madras: Ganesh & Co.<ref name="JinnahSpeeches">{{Cite book |last=Jinnah |first=Mahomed Ali |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001866917 |title=Mahomed Ali Jinnah, an ambassador of unity; his speeches & writings 1912–1917. |publisher=Ganesh & Co. |year=1919 |editor-last=Naidu |editor-first=Sarojini |location=Madras}}</ref>
* 1928: ''The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India'', New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co.<ref name="SceptredFlute">{{Cite book |last=Naidu |first=Sarojini |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001058638 |title=The sceptred flute: songs of India |date=1928 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & company |location=New York}}</ref><ref name="FirstEdition" />
* 1961: ''The Feather of the Dawn'', edited by [[Padmaja Naidu]], Bombay: Asia Publishing House<ref name="Nasta2012" />