The present paper is a comprehensive survey of Indian English poetry. The paper tries to see firstly how Indian English poetry emerged as a result of contact with different foreign cultures and secondly how it went developed as an independent variety of English literature with the passage of time. The paper shows the emergence and development of Indian English poetry through its survey of different phases and so the author has provided samples from the writings of different important phases with due regard to the themes that they have touched on.

Indian English Poetry, origin, development, imitation, adaptation