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.
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