Sarojini Naidu is a prominent figure in pre-independence Indian English poetry. She is considered to be a dreamer, born in a dreamless age and an ardent, versatile and dynamic genius unsurpassable for her sweet and melodious songs which are unsurpassed in the entire range of Indian English ...
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves. —J. B. Priestley 15 Boyhood is a most complex ...
Nissim Ezekil was born and brought up in Mumbai though he belongs to immigrant Jewish family. He has observed and experienced Indian life very closely and is considered to be the father of Post independence Indian verse in English. The Indianness in Ezekiel's poetry is nothing but a ...
P B Shelley was such a writer in whose works the theme of `Indianness' is prevalent and influential. This brief paper is an effort to shed light on the Indian influences in Shelley's writings. It aims at offering a glimpse into ancient India through Shelley's poetry, play, prose and ...
It has dealt with customs, beliefs, traditions, superstitions, aspirations, simple joys, and sorrows etc.The task of interpreting the heart of India and of creating a genuine Indian atmosphere in English poetry, which had been left incomplete by Toru Dutt on account of her premature death, was...
Jayant Mahapatra's poetry demonstrates a continual rehearsal of dramatizing ahuman longing for the possible alternatives of the dying process of the Hindu myth, "TheDance of Shiva" or the myth of origins. The myth is predominantly incarnated in theHindu way of life over which Orissa temple ...