Spiritual Quest in Vijay Kumar Roy’s Realm of Beauty and Truth: A Collection of Poems

Vijay Kumar Roy is a university teacher by profession and a bi-lingual poet, editor and critic. He started writing poems at the age of nineteen. He has authored and edited more than one dozen books on English poetry, Hindi poetry, Indian English poetry, Indian English fiction, Peace Literature, Comparative Literature, and English Language Teaching. Dr. Roy is a man of principle. He has deep faith in the Almighty. He is fascinated by two things in life: beauty and truth. To him beauty does not mean external beauty. He believes in the inner beauty of man which helps him to find the truth. Truth is nothing but infinite. The poet has a tender heart to find the presence of infinite in all creatures of nature. His collection of poems, Realm of Beauty and Truth, published in 2016 contains poems dealing with his love for humanity, search for truth and quest for spirituality. The present paper aims at dealing with his spiritual quest in this collection of poems.