Contents: Contributors. Preface. 1. Indian poetry in English: A Bird's eye view/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. Two mystics: Aurobindo and Rabindranath/Bithika Dasgupta Sarkar. 3. A few aspects of Indian poetics of aesthetics and Gitanjali/D. Padmarani. 4. Some poems of Tagore's Gitanjali: a critical appraisal/S.K. Paul. 5. Some short poems of Sri Aurobindo: a blending of art and mystcism/Amar Nath Prasad. 6. Sarojini Naidu's poetry: an evergreen plant of Vedantic fruit and poetic fragrance/Amar Nath Prasad. 7. Reading Kamala Das in the light of Lakoff's feminist theory/Shibu Simon. 8. Spiritual feminism in the poetry of Kamala Das/D.K. Mandal. 9. Feminism in the works of Kamala Das, D.H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman/M.H. Siddiqui. 10. The other themes of Kamala Das/Shibu Simon. 11. The poetry of Nissim Ezekiel: a fine fusion of feeling and form/Amar Nath Prasad. 12. "Vikram Seth: a liberal humanist/Gauri Shankar Jha. 13. A framed Sand-Dune: form and imagery in O.P. Bhatnagar's poetry/R.S. Pathak. 14. The poet as social chronicler and reformer: a study of Basavaraj Naikar's (Trans) Musings of Sarvajna/S. John Peter Joseph.15. "Nature" in the poetry of D.C. Chambial/D. Murali Manohar. 16. Niranjan Mohanty's poetry and desire: an appraisal/Ashok Kumar. 17. Tapascharanam and Gitanjali: a comparative study/Mahendra Singh. 18. Secular-humanism in Indian women's poetry in English/Seemin Hasan. 19. Diasporal life in Indian poetry in English/Sharad Rajimwale. Index.
"Critical Response to Indian Poetry in English is a modest attempt to evaluate the various aspects of Indian poetry in English. It is a collection of more than a dozen of scholarly papers presented by various scholars hailing from the different parts of India. It includes critical papers on Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Kamla Das, Nissim Ezekiel, Vikram Seth, O.P. Bhatnagar, B.S. Naikar, D.C. Chambial, Niranjan Mohanty, etc. The last two papers deal with secular humanism and diasporal life in Indian poetry in English.
The book, it is hoped, will certainly find a warm reception in the hands of the connoisseur of art and poetry." (jacket)
