3 Review(s)

Some comments on Jha’s poetry:“Passion and creation work hand in hand, but it is the creation that has the last word.” Patricia Prime in The Commonwealth Review, Vol. 15, No.1“Pashupati Jha has evolved a style of his own—uncomplicated, direct yet profound. One marvels at his accurate use of language and economy of idiom.” Usha Bande in The Indian Journal of English Studies, Vol.50“We are faced here with the inspired writings of an enlightened intellectual, a man of passion, whose verse is imbued with clarity of style and concept.” Bernard M. Jackson in The Commonwealth Review, Vol. 15, No.1“What remains embedded in the reader’s mind in most of his poems are the concluding lines, which, like the Urdu couplets, are pithy, poignant, memorable and have a stunning effect, like the stroke of a hammer—a trait one can find in abundance in the poetry of Robert Frost and Nissim Ezekiel.” Ramesh K Srivastava in The Journal of Indian Writing in English, Vol.31 No.2“He lets his experience gestate and shape into right rhetoric.”Manohar Bandopadhyay in Indian Literature, Vol.48, No.1About the Author:A Ph.D. on the poetry of Sylvia Plath from I.I.T. Delhi, Pashupati Jha is a senior Professor of English and former Head, Humanities Department, I.I.T. Roorkee. In addition to writing exhaustively on literatures in English and guiding successfully fourteen scholars for Ph.D. degree, Jha has also been a remarkable teacher, winning the Outstanding Teacher Award of I.I.T. Roorkee twice, in 2003 and 2007. Besides core English, he teaches Indian English Novel, Creative Writing in English, and Research Methodology. He has been the Chairman of Indian Association for English Studies (Now AESI) from Jan.2006 to December 2011. He was also the President of 57th All India English Teachers’ Conference, held at Sardar Patel University, Anand, in December, 2012. Besides numerous academic publications which include a book, Sylvia Plath, co-edited anthology, Reflections on English Studies, and over sixty research papers and book chapters. He has also published three widely read and reviewed poetry collections: Cross and Creation (2003), Mother and Other Poems (2005) and All in One (2011). Awaiting Eden Again is his fourth poetry collection. Jha’s poetry has been praised for its beauty, sincerity, brevity, intensity, wide thematic range, and Indian ethos by many established national and international critics. Address: Dr Pashupati Jha, Professor of English, Humanities & Social Sciences Dept., I.I.T., Roorkee-247 667. E-Mail: pashupatijha@yahoo.co.in