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SREENIVASAN, S. "The Self and Its Enchanted Circle: A Perspective on the Poetry of
Nissim Ezekiel" Littcrit 16.1&2 (1990): 81-87.
SREERMACHER, M. "The River's Argot in Three Indo-English Poets: A.K. Ramanujan,
K.N. Daruwalla and Nissim Ezekiel" Poetry 10 (1986):11-13.
TARANATH, RAJEEV. "Ezekiel's Nalini." In Indian Drama edited by Gowda, (1974), 117-
26.
A poet moving into playwriting is an interesting phenomenon, especially when he has
to face the peculiar problems of Indian-English theater. His material is seriously attenuated, as
he deals with English-speaking Indians, a very small class. Nalini is tightly knit. The two male
characters, Bharat and Raj, reveal different kinds of alienation--Raj's alienation touches
tragedy, while Bharat's is merely cerebral. Nalini is not an ordinary character, she is a dream
and a reality, an agent of evaluation. Ezekiel makes clever use of the bell; at the end of the
play, it acquires a kind of symbolism which is typical of the poet Ezekiel.
VAIDYANATHAN, RAMA. "Nissim Ezekiel on Indo-Anglian Fiction" Journal of Literature
and Aesthetics 2.2&3 (1982):17-19.
VERGHESE, C. PAUL. "The Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel." Indian Literature 15, no.1
(1972):63-75.
Close reading matching form and content (“Night of the Scorpion”, Poet, Lover,
Birdwatcher”). Primary concern is “man and his mind”, the meditative quest for self-integration
balanced by “sensory commitment to life”, aphoristic bareness by modulations of tone and
technical control. Probes illusion and desire for truth, aphoristic qualities moving to ironically
juxtaposed images. Simpler, more terse than Moraes.
WIELAND, JAMES. ""'Making Light of the Process': Nissim Ezekiel's Poetic Fictions"
Kunapipi 2.2 (1980):91-103.
WISEMAN, C. "The Development of Technique in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel: From
Formality to Informality" in MUKHERJEE, MEENAKSHI. ed. Considerations: Twelve
Studies of Indo-Anglian Writing New Delhi: Allied, 1977: 137-50. Perceives The Exact
Name (1965) is the key text in expanding his technical skills. Locates ‘In India’ as the
transitional poem and ‘Two Images’ and ‘In Retrospect’ as examples of his new free style
form. The Exact Name (1965) records the revolutionary change in his formal expertise.
WISEMAN, CHRISTOPHER. "The Development of Technique in the Poetry of Nissim
Ezekiel" in KULSHRESHTHA, CHIRANTAN., ed Contemporary Indian-English Verse: An
Evaluation New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1980: 133-49. Also Atlantic Highlands:
Humanities, 1981.Reprinted from MUKHERJEE,MEENAKSHI ed.Considerations: Twelve
Stidies of Indo-Anglian Writing New Delhi: Allied, 1977: 137-50.
Furtado, Joseph
AMANUDDIN, SYED. "Social Realism in the Poetry of Joseph Furtado" Journal of Indian
Writing in English 7.2 (1978):46-9.