Calcutta's Anglo-Indian Poet and Icon

Where would you find the greatest Anglo-Indian poet

today?In the old burying ground of Calcutta, on the

south side of Park Street,amid obelisks,pyramids,pillars

and tombs of various forms, at the western extremity,

"next to the monument of Major Maling on the south,

"lies the mortal remains of one of the highest gifted

and most accomplished,Henry Louis Vivian Derozio,a

poet, philosopher and thinker, who passed away at the

age of 22.Derozio was an Anglo-Indian(referred to as an

Eurasian during his lifetime) poet and teacher who was

born in Calcutta on the 10th of April,1809.

Calcutta's Anglo-Indian Poet and Icon