The Golden Threshold

About this book

A golden doorway, a summer river and the voice of a child: Sarojini Naidu's poems are rich with music, colour and everyday life in India.

The Golden Threshold was her first collection, published in English when she was still a young poet. Songs of love, religious feeling and ordinary labour sit beside images of markets, palanquins and the natural world. Its beauty is immediate, while its language also records the difficult meeting of colonial-era English literary forms with Indian experience.