The work on Indian poetry in English is a modest attempt at bringing fore the representative poets of different phases of tehe journey of literature. A short biographical sketch is followed by the evaluation of sailent features of the poetry of respective poet. The entire information is gathered under the following main headings:

Introduction, Sri Aurobindo, A.K. Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel, Sarojini Naidu, Vikram Seth, Rabindranath Tagore, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Arun Kolatkar, Dilip Chitre, Dom Moraes, Jayanta Mahapatra, Kamala Das, Ranhjit Hoskote, Som Ranchan, Toru Dutt, Pritish Nandy, Keshav Malik, Keki N. Daruwalla, Miscellaneous Poets,