A Comprehensive Study
G.J.V. Prasad
MODERN INDIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH Bruce King Oxford University Press, 1987, 299 pp., 150
Sept-Oct 1987, volume 11, No 5

The most important fact about this book is that it is the first comprehensive study of the subject. And its importance to the critical canon (a term King seems fond of) may remain just that. Which is a pity since King does not lack insights or an awareness of the situation in Indian English poetry. But after some meticulous research, King seems to have been forced to put together a book anyhow—and a book which would reflect the amount of research he had done. So we have a book where the ‘approach is historical, cultural, sociological and literary’ as the author himself claims.

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