<P> Indian English Poetry is the oldest form of Indian English Literature . Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations . Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Toru Dutt among others . Among the contemporary Indian English Poets, Nar Deo Sharma occupies important place because of his literary achievements . </P> <P>--Pankaj Mishra" Times Literary Supplement". International Books of the Year, 3 December 2004: 10 </P> <P> Nissim Ezekiel is considered to be a pioneering figure in modern Indian English Poetry. His first book, A Time to Change, was published in 1952 . The significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore . Some of the notable poets of Ezekiel's time are A.K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Jayant Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Keki N. Daruwalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Shiv K. Kumar, Arun Kolatkar and Dilip Chitre . Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali and created a small body of work (mainly prose) in English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English . </P> <P>--Bruce Alvin King" Modern Indian Poetry in English". New Delhi . Oxford University press, 2004 </P>

Briefly trace the genesis and growth of indian english poetry in the nineteenth century