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A Critical Survey of Indo-English Poetry

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About the book

The present critical work A Critical Survey of Indo-English Poetry is by far the most exhaustive and comprehensive critical assessment of Indian English poetry till date. It is no exaggeration to say that in the recent years a book of this exhaustive nature covering almost all the known and unknown poets, which includes all the established and recent poets as well as the up-coming poets, has not been attempted. While most of the critical works cover only a few selected poets or poets of a particular period, this work covers almost all the poets from the early phase till now covering two centuries of Indo-English poetry which is indeed a Herculean task for a single scholar to accomplish. Right from Henry Derozio, Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Toru Dutt, from Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, from Nissim Ezekiel, Krishna Srinivas and Jayanta Mahapatra, till the recent poets such as I.K.Sharma and D.C.Chambial and most recent writers such as Mamang Dai, Vinita Agarwal and Padma Priya, the poetry of almost all the poets is critically evaluated and the book succeeds in presenting a general view and review of their poetry and a critical assessment of all these poets. Poets of the post-independence period are rightly divided into two groups - poets of the pre-Emergency period and those of the post-Emergency period with the year of imposition of Emergency forming the dividing line. This work would be definitely useful to all the lovers and teachers of poetry and to the research-oriented scholars and it will serve as reference book of great significance for all those who are interested in Indian English poetry.

Critical Opinions on the Author :
T.V.Reddy is a real poet with a commitment to perfection…. His poetry is an outburst of emotion and it succeeds in creating the basic human feelings.
—Prof. David Kerr, Monash Univ., Australia (from his Introduction to T.V.Reddy’s Melting Melodies)
Listen to the rhythm in his lyrical lines so pleasing to the ear. He writes with natural flow; the lyrics could easily be strummed to music… Truly When Grief Rains (author’s 1st collection of poems) is the insight into a rare soul longing for the ethereal.
—Dr. Rosemary C. Wilkinson, U.S.A.
He is a conventional poet whose mind is equipped with the furnishings of native tradition. We can read the influence of great poetry he has read and they bathe his sensibility in a baptism of transmutation. In this small collection The Broken Rhythms the variety of themes bear a testimony to the fertility of his creative perception.
—A. Russel (Poet & Critic) London
Dr. Reddy’s poetry is richly varied and imagist, and what is more remarkable in his poetry is that it at once suggests and stimulates.
—Dr. Georges Friedenkraft, Paris (from his Foreword to the author’s 3rd book The Fleeting Bubbles. )
In the vast desert of Indo-Anglian poetry, it is quite refreshing to see the life-giving oasis of Reddi’s poetry which at once resuscitates and invigorates even a slumbering mind. His poems are as immortal as the frescoes of the famous Ajantha caves in India.
—Dr. Edith Rusconi Kaltovich, N.J. U.S.A.
Dr Reddy is one of the talented and gifted poets of Asia.
—Prof G.Soosai, Malaysia
My attention is sometimes arrested by the striking imagery and phrasing. The poet has a keen eye to mark the exceptional whether in life or nature.
—Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Madras
Dr. T. Vasudeva Reddy is a morning star in the firmament of Indo-Anglian poetry. He is a poet par excellence who has profound message to convey.
—Dr. Krishna Srinivas, Editor, Poet, Madras
In his poetry we find concrete examples of poetic excellences that distinguish him from other Indian poets and reserve for him a permanent place on the Indian Parnassus. Every poem is a nugget of thoughtful fancy studded in the fabric of the poet’s pageant of poetic filigree.
—Dr. D.C. Chambial, Editor, Poetcrit, H.P.
Like a gifted sculptor he chisels his poems with the deftness of a master craftsman.
—Prof. Nissim Ezekiel, Bombay