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Prasad looks with approval at the metrical and mythical patterns in Ezekiel's poetry.
RAMAKRISHNA, D. "Ezekiel's Credo":1-16.
Ramakrishna examines a number of Ezekiel's letters, critical essays and interviews to gain an
insight into the creed behind his poetry. He concludes that Ezekiel's quest for the proper
communication of the meaning of life is based on his convictions of the extrinsic and intrinsic
aspects of literature.
RODRIGUES, SANTAN. "The Plays of Nissim Ezekiel":122-30.
Ezekiel is an excellent craftsman whose characters are caricatures. Description and direct
quotes. Evaluate Three Plays and Song of Deprivation, written during Ezekiel's peak period as
a poet. Ezekiel is a better poet than playwright; the plays depict only the banality of life, while
the poems grapple with the its big questions.
KARNANI, CHETAN. Nissim Ezekiel New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1973, 192 pp.
KHER, INDER NATH. "'That Message From Another Shore': The Esthetic Vision of Nissim
Ezekiel" Mahfil 8.4 (1972):17-28.
KHER, INDER NATH. "'That Message from Another Shore': The Esthetic Vision of Nissim
Ezekiel" in KULSHRESHTHA, CHIRANTAN., ed Contemporary Indian-English Verse: An
Evaluation New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1980: 150-64. Also Atlantic Highlands:
Humanities, 1981.
KHER, INDER NATH. "A Time to Change: The Early Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel" South
Asian Review 2 (1978):41-55.
KHULLAR, AJIT. "Old Psalms for New Times" Indian Literature 27.5 (1984):219-27.
KUMAR, SHIV K. "Poster Plays of Nissim Ezekiel" Journal of South Asian Literature 11.3-
4 (1976):263-4.
KUMAR, VINODA & SHIV KUMAR. "The Indianness of Ezekiel's 'Indian English Poems':
An Analysis" Kunapipi 9.1 (1987):21-9.
MEHTA, P.P. "Nissim Ezekiel" in DWIVEDI, A.N ed. Studies in Contemporary Indo-
English Verse Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1984: 210-15.
NABAR, VRINDA. "Domesticity and Drama: An Analysis of Nissim Ezekiel's Marriage-
Poem and Don't Call it Suicide." In Contemporary Indian Drama, edited by Pandey (1990),
75-81.
Ezekiel's contribution to Indian English drama is modest. Marriage Poem, in the
conventional theatriacl mode, with clear stage directions, is very stageable. The view of
marriage is equally dismal in Don't Call it Suicide, which shows the sham security of middle
class respectability. Nabar is unsatisfied with the dialogue, into which Indianisms intrude
without any justification, and the women characters, uniformly drab, stereotyped, and
unimaginative.
NAIR, K. R. RAMACHANDRAN. “Nissim Ezekiel’s ‘Bombay Poems’.” Triveni 59, no.3
(1990):65-74.