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J.M. Cohen wrote that Yeats was "the greatest figure in English poetry since the death of Tennyson", and Ezra Pound, who once went to yeats to learn how to write poetry, wrote about him: "I dare say…that up to date no one has shown any disposition to supersede him as the best poet in England or any likelihood of doing so for some time…" Yeats is a very complex and difficult poet, because there is in him a curious intermixture of ...
This is perhaps the most comprehensive book on Wordsworth, having discussions on most of the different dimensions of the poet—as a critic, a poetic theorist, a great lover of nature, a humanist, and as a philosopher. In this book, twelve most important poems of the poet, his five ‘Lucy’ poems and also his six sonnets have been thoroughly discussed, and the texts of all the 23 poems have been given. In the ...
First published in 1609, all the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare continue to retain their significance in English literature. They form an integral part of syllabi of various educational institutions and universities across the world. While the majority of the sonnets are addressed to a man, the others are addressed to a woman--the so-called "dark lady of the sonnets." To some critics these sonnets are autobiographical and to others they are mere " ...
E.M. Forster's celebrated novel A Passage to India is prescribed in the syllabus of almost all the universities in India, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is really a complex and difficult novel, and books that can well help the students, in particular, in their having a grip on it are far too few, if now non-existent. With a view to fill this gap and cater to the academic needs of readers, the present book has been written. Briefly outlining ...
A great novelist, a learned and wise critic, and a charming short-story writer--can these three reside in a single person? Yes, but of course, in a very few, and E.M. Forster is certainly one of those very few and that he is par excellence. Any knowledge of modern English novel without even an acquaintance with Forster is absurdly incomplete. All of Forster's six novels, perhaps barring only Maurice, have been and are being printed and re-printed in hundreds of ...
T.S. Eliot is a major figure in English literature. His, The Waste Land established him decisively as a voice of a disillusioned generation and Prufrock and Other Observations struck a new note in modern poetry--Satiric, allusive, cosmopolitan and at times lyric and elegiac. T.S. Eliot, along with W.H. Auden, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender represented the mainstream of modern movement in poetry. He came to be regarded as a figure of great cultural authority whose ...