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Indian Poetry in English
Indian English Poetry is the oldest form of Indian English Literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Toru Dutt among others. Among the contemporary Indian English Poets, Nar Deo Sharma occupies important place because of his literary achievements. Indian English poetry has three phases: the pioneers (starting in the 1850's), the assimilatives (starting 1947), and the experimental phase (post Indian Independence).

Contents

 * History
 * Poets
 * Famous Poems

History
Indian English Poetry is around 200 years old. The first volume, Poems, was written by Henry Derozio in 1827. The son of an Indo-Portugese father, and an English mother, Henry Derozio is known as the first Indian English Poet. He started a daily called The East Indian as well. Nissim Ezekiel is considered to be a pioneering figure in modern Indian English Poetry. His first book, A Time to Change, was published in 1952. The significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. Some of the notable poets of Ezekiel's time are A. K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Jayant Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Keki N. Daruwalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Shiv K. Kumar, Arun Kolatkar and Dilip Chitre. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali and created a small body of work (mainly prose) in English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honor as a protest against British policies in India. Sri Aurobindo has left a huge footprint in Indian English Poetry. Sri Aurobindo passed thirteen years, from 1893 to 1906, in the Baroda Service, first in the Revenue Department and in secretariate work for the Maharaja, afterwards as Professor of English and, finally, Vice-Principal in the Baroda College. These were years of self-culture, of literary activity -- for much of the poetry afterwards published from Pondicherry was written at this time -- and of preparation for his future work.

Poets
Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, and Jayanta Mahapatra are some of the early Indian English poets. 20th Century poets of English poetry in India include Eunice De Souza, Gieve Patel, Kersy Katrak, P. Lal among others. The younger generation of poets writing in English are Abhay K, Adil Jussawalla, A. J. Thomas, Anand Thakore, Anju Makhija, Anjum Hasan, Hoshang Merchant,Anupama Raju, Madan Gopal Gandhi, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Bibhu Padhi, C. P. Surendran, Desmond L.Kharmawplang, Dileep Jhaveri, E.V. Ramakrishnan, Anuradha Bhattacharyya, and Gopi Kottoor.

Famous Poems

 * Dance of Dust- Krishna Sriniwas
 * Hymns in Darkness- Nizim Ezekiel
 * The Fakir of Jungheera: A Metrical Tale and Other Poems
 * Gitanjali- Rabindranath Tagore
 * Manasi- Rabindranath Tagore