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One day a little Indian girl was locked in a room alone for a whole day by her father because the would not learn English The child was Sarojini who later on, an Sangini Naidu, became one of the most distinguished poets in the very language she had refused to learn Sarojini, like the rest of her family, was educated in her early years under her father's own care Her father wanted her to become a great mathematician or scientist, but she did not like doing sums or conducting experiments She loved to dream and write poems. She wrote her first poem when she was hardly eleven. At the age of thirteen she wrote a long poem in the manner of the famous English poets. In this way she began her poctic carcer After passing the Matriculation Examination in India, and before she was fifteen she went to England for higher education. It was during her stay in London that she met Sir Edmund Gosse, a distinguished man of letters of the time. He was very impressed by her knowledge. intelligence and learning. When he came to know from her that she wrote English verse, he asked her to show him some of her poets On reading her poems, he was surprised to find that they were written in almost faultless English, but was disappointed that they had nothing of the East in them. They were all about English sights and this day onwards, she devoted herself to writing verses about India




Q1. What does the phrase man of letters mean?​

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