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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates and debates the well-grounded and confident tradition of Indian Poetry in English. It contains individual essays on poets before and since the Indian Independence focus on the poetry of Derozio, Tagore, Aurobindo and Naidu right down to the modern and contemporary poets like Ezekiel, Mahapatra, Ramanujan, Kolatkar, Das, Moraes, Daruwalla, de Souza, Jussawalla and Patel who ushered in a change both in terms of subject matter and style.
Trade Review”… such daring points made by the contributors of this anthology make this book stand out in its genre. Unlike a great many books of Indian scholarship this book is not merely a work of scissors and paste; the anthology turns out to be a book of real substance. […] Like most other pieces of this anthology this one becomes one of the best introductions to the poet under focus […] One of the reasons for the great success of this anthology is that it has some very experienced and creative contributors. The anthology picks up the class that these classy contributors possess. One of the reasons why the anthology will remain a favourite with researchers in this field is that they will need the exhaustive bibliography that is provided at the end of the book.” - Lakshmi Raj Sharma, Online Review, March 31, 2014
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Smita Agarwal: Introduction: Subaltern Discourse? Sheshalatha Reddy: Henry Derozio and the Romance of Rebellion Sonjoy Dutta-Roy: The English Tagore: Restoring a Legacy Goutam Ghosal: Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry: A Critical Study Neela Bhattacharya Saxena: Prodigy, Poet and Freedom Fighter: Sarojini Naidu – Nightingale of India Nilufer E. Bharucha: Recalling Nissim Ezekiel: A Poet of the Mind and Heart Sachidananda Mohanty: The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra Anjali Nerlekar: Converting Past Time into Present Space: A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetry Vinay Dharwadker: Arun Kolatkar’s Historical Imagination Anisur Rahman: Contextualizing Kamala Das A.J. Thomas: Indian Poetry in English: Dom Moraes, Keki Daruwalla, Eunice de Souza, Adil Jussawalla, Gieve Patel Tabish Khair: Language in Indian Poetry in English Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
