This book, now in a revised edition, is a comprehensive study of modern Indian poetry in English. It is a history and analysis of the most important poets (such as Nissim Ezekial, A.K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes), books and journals, along with an analysis of the social basis of Indian English-language poetry. This edition includes an updated chronology, an extended essay on Agha Shahid Ali, and two chapters on significant new, younger poets.
Introduction
History and Publishing Circles
The Poets, their Readers and the Market
Towards a CanonPoetics and Criticism
Ezekiel and His Influence
The Poets India I: Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Patel, Daruwalla, Shiv Kumar
The Poet's India II
Peeradina, Rodrigues, de Souza, Shetty, Silgardo
Women's Voices: Kamala Das, de Souza, SilgardoTwo Bilingual Experimentalists: Kolatkar and Chitre
Experimentalists II: Mehtotra and Mahapatra
Exile: Ramanujan, Sharat Chandra, Kumar, Nazareth, Seth
And Return: Parthasarathy and Jussawalla
Part 2: The Disapora: Agha Shahid Ali's Tricultural Nostalgia
Publishing 1987-99Maturity: Moraes, Peeradina, Ramanujan, Patel, Shetty, Mehrotra, Daruwalla, de Souza, Alexander
New Women Poets: Shivdasani, Patel, D'Souza, Sambrani, Dharker, Divakaruni, Bhatt
New Poets, Styles, and Feelings: Hoskote, Thayil, Surendran, Nambisan, Merchant, Rao, Padhi, Khair, Prasad, Ramakrishnan
Chronology of Significant Publications, Journals and Events, 1947-99
ChartI: Life and Career Details of Some Poets
Chart 2: Anthologies, Publishers and Awards,
Chart 3: Important Anthologized Poems
Index
Bruce King is a well-known scholar of seventeenth-century English literature and Commonwealth literature. He has published Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A. K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes (OUP, 1991), and Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life (OUP, 2000).
