A collection of Nissim Ezekiel's seven individual volumes of verse, together with many uncollected or unpublished poems. Ezekiel has been described as one of India's greatest English-language poets.

This third edition adds over 140 poems to the second, which appeared as long ago as the end of the 1980s. It comprises all the work he wishes to retain from twelve individual books spanning six decades, as well as a number of new, uncollected poems. Wide ranging in theme and displaying an impressive mastery of form, this body of writing firmly establishes Alan Brownjohn's achievement as central to the English poetry of the last half-century.

Nissim Ezekiel Is Probably The Most Famous Living Indian Poet In English. Displaying A Dedication Of Heroic Dimensions To His Vocation, He Has Created An Oeuvre Remarkable For Its Range And Depth. He Was Responsible For Spearheading The Modernist Revolution In Indian Poetry In English. All But Divorcing His Wife, Denying His Family Time And Commitment, Creating And Fighting Enemies, Ezekiel Has Served The Muse Indefatigably And Evangelically, And At Great Personal Cost, For He Is As Much Activist For Poetry As Poet. He Has Published The Work Of Others, Edited Journals, Held Offices In Literary Organizations, Selected Poetry For Magazines, Advised Publishing Houses And Helped And Guided Generations Of Poets. Besides, Ezekiel Has Made Significant Contributions As Playwright, Prose Writer, Critic, Translator And Teacher. The Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel Is A Product Of A. Raghu S Close Familiarity With The Work Of The Poet As Well As His Long Interaction With The Man. The Book Carries Out A Thorough Thematic And Stylistic Analysis Of The Corpus Of Ezekiel, Seeking To Effect A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Same. Efforts Are Made To Foreground The Corpus Against The Tradition Of Indian Poetry In English And To Establish The Work Of Ezekiel As The Main Link Between Pre-Independence Indian Poetry In English And Its Post-Independence Counterpart. Ever Willing To Battle It Out, Raghu Takes On Some Of The Biggest Names In The Contemporary Literary World Of India To Craft A Book Which Is Provocatively Brilliant. The Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel Will Remain The Book On Ezekiel S Verse For A Very Long Time To Come.

This third edition of Alan Brownjohn's Collected Poems was first published by the Enitharmon Press in 2006. It adds over 140 poems to the second, which appeared in 1988. This volume comprises all of the work that Brownjohn wishes to retain from his twelve individual collections published between 1954 and 2004; it also incorporates a number of newer uncollected poems. Wide-ranging in theme and displaying an impressive mastery of form, this body of writing firmly establishes Alan Brownjohn's achievement as central to the English poetry of the last half-century. 'Wonderfully rich and well-produced... Brownjohn is a marvellously skilful comedian... he is a social poet in the sense that if people in the future want to know what many lives were like in the second half of the 20th century, they should read Alan Brownjohn - observant, troubled, humane, scrupulous, wry, funny.' Anthony Thwaite, Guardian

The Present Book Is A Detailed Exposition Of The Multiple Dimensions Of Creativity In Men And Women Vis-À-Vis The Difference Of Sexuality And Gender As Mirrored In Their Texts. This Innovative And Perceptive Study Confronts The Essentialist Biodeterministic Standpoint That Men And Women Are Out And Out Different, Dissimilar And Divergent. By Discussing The Texts Of The Post-Independence Men And Women Poets Of India And Drawing Comparisons Between Them, It Asserts That, Despite Certain Biological Differences, Men And Women Are Similar In Many Ways. By Employing Theoretical Approaches Based On Psychoanalysis, Linguistics, Poetics, Reader-Responses And Cultural And Gender Studies, The Book Expounds That Gender Or Sexuality Can Make Some Difference To The Aesthetic But It Cannot Solely Determine The Content. The Social, Cultural And Political Milieu Of The Day Plays A Crucial Role In Deciding The Content And Object Of Writing, Besides Conditioning The Psyche And Thought Process Of The Author, More Than Gender Or Sexual Difference Does. This Study Provides New Insights Into The Varied Aspects Of Man-Woman Relationship, The Nitty-Gritty Of Different Family Relations, The Milieu, Human Correlation With Nature, And Metaphysical Questionings Of Life, Death, God And Human Existence, Besides Analyzing The Influence Of Gender And Sexual Difference On Poetic Craft, Particularly On Language, Style And Technique.It Analyses The Poems Of Over Twelve Major Indian Men And Women Poets And Compares Them In Terms Of Diverse Themes, Diction And Idiom, And With Particular Focus On The Workings Of Gender And Sexual Difference. The Major Poets Discussed Are Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Keki N. Daruwalla, Shiv K. Kumar And Jayanta Mahapatra Among Men And Monika Varma, Kamala Das, Gauri Deshpande, Sunita Jain, Suniti Namjoshi, Mamta Kalia And Eunice De Souza Among Women.Since These Authors Are Prescribed In The English Syllabi In The Universities Of India, This Study Will Be Extremely Useful To The Students And Teachers. The General Readers Who Are Interested In Indian Literature In English Will Find It Interesting And Informative.

Indian poetry in English began with the imitation of English Romantic poets but gradually Indo-Anglian poets began to write on Indian themes based on Indian contexts and Indian social scenario. Indo-Anglian poetry has received world recognition and some of the poets are held in high esteem. This anthology containing 35 essays is an attempt to represent the gamut of Indian poetry in English, both pre-Independence and post-Independence, from diverse critical perspectives. The thirteen poets covered in this anthology include Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Toru Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, and Kamala Das. The essays in the book offer innovative perspectives and touch upon different aspects of Indian poetry in English. The tone of the essays varies from personal to argumentative to objectively discursive. The book, with diverse and thought-provoking essays, will be highly useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Literature. Besides, those who are interested to know about Indian Poetry in English will find the book quite illuminating and interesting.

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