Interpreting Poetry and Evaluating Criticism seeks to evaluate canonical Indian English poetry and interpret the poetry of W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Nissim Ezekiel as beacon light to English, Irish and Indian English poetry. Attempts have also been made to explicate the poetry of Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Poets, such as Jayanta Mahapatra, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar, Dom Moraes, A.K. Ramanujan, Jeet Thayil, besides Nissim Ezekiel. Part I culminates with an analysis of contextualization of the mythic and lsquo;crow' and and lsquo;fox' in Ted Hughes's poetry.In part II, an attempt has been made to interpret the criticism of Indian critics such as Sri Aurobindo, Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan and C.D. Narasimhaiah. One chapter is devoted to glocalization and the eclipse of post-colonial theory. The most significant chapter seeks to find out if it is possible to have canonical criticism, in the same way as we have canonical poetry.This is an invaluable book for students, researchers and teachers who seek to interpret poetry and evaluate criticism in the contemporary academic situation.