Indian English Poetry Criticism--A Poetical Study Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Is it a criticism? I doubt.

Rough notes, what to say it about? How to take a note of all that?

First, let me ask, when was it Indian English poetry? Was it not Indology, Oriental studies, Sanskrit studies, India House matter?

How the cannons of it? Literary theories and principles?

Indian English poetry criticism is not of critics and theorists, but of surveyors and reviewers. It is a study of stray poems and thinner matters.

It is a thing of prefaces, blurbs, reviews and correspondences. As the poets' presence itself was shaky and staggering, how could they have their experiences of writing or tending to poetry or the progress of poesy? They were even not sure of their stance.

Indian English poetry is a study in self-styles poets. Was Aurobindo not? Did his works not appear from his ashrama press? Can we take him for all as for popularizing, promoting and bringing to light others?

What do we know more about the influences of Tagore? Who taught him and schooled? How was the literary influence? Do we ever try to know them? could he appreciate and critique Yeats' poetry?

Modern Indian English poetry, did it not start during the pre-independence period? Were there not good practitioners then? do we ever read them in our courses of studies?

Did the modern period end with the ten-poet study of R.Parthasarathy? Has poetry not evolved after him and his number ten? Is he not a one-book Ph.D. matter? Could Daruwalla appreciate Aurobindo? Did Nissim not suffer from the quest for identity? How far Indian is Indian English poetry? , did we not ask it about?

How could we leave and omit Dorothy Bonarjee, the Welsh bard who was from Bareilly?

Still now it is easy to be a doctorate on Indian English stuff rather than English literature. There was a time when olden British classic-read professors used to think of Ph.Ds. on Indian writings in English as non-English theses and used to frown upon.

Modern Indian English poetry has not started with P.Lal's propositions though he made it people-friendly and gave chance to many who were not reputed then as are now. Many he too published it not.

There are three types of poets into the realm of Indian English poetry, magazine brought journo media-propped poets, self-published poets and publishing house-brought poets.

There was a time when the bios of the modern poets were not available and the students of the prescribed syllabuses to grope in darkness with their teachers. The books of Daruwalla, Mahapatra, Parthasarathy, Patel, Kumar, all were unavailable, out of print and stock, not accessible. The book keepers used to hear with a surprise, the librarians used to express ignorance. Even the catalogues were not.