The Knight and The Saint

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The knight and the Saint: A Study of T.S. Eliot’s Development is an in-depth research into the works and development of T.S. Eliot. Using the emblematic figures of the knight and the Saint as the questers after the Infinite, as cited by Eliot’s teacher Irving Babbitt in his Rousseau and Romaniticism, Dr. Madge views Eliot’s literary output as a reflection of his various quests. In doing so the traditional picture of T.S. Eliot as the hard, impersonal classicist is significantly altered and this also helps to establish Eliot’s linkages with the Romantics and Victorians and thus brings the venture called Modernism in tune with Wordsworth and Coleridge’s experiment on Romaniticism. The use of the new biographical information and of the so far silent voices of Eliot now becoming articulate makes readers get a very different picture of the poet and that makes Dr. Madge’s book a significant contribution to Eliot-scholarship.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR V.M. Madge

Dr. V.M. Madge is the Reader and Head, Dept. of English in A.M. College, Hadapsar, Pune. He has contributed poems and research articles to several journals and books. His first publication was a mock-epic onthe academic life Academiad (1978). In 1991 he, as a British Council Scholar, He visited the University of Kent, Canterbury and attended the Dickens Summer School. He is also the Secretary of the Indian Chapter of the Dickens Fellowship, London. Dr. Madge has also co-edited with Dr. A.P. Dani, two anthologies of literary criticism: Literary Theory and Criticism: Ruminations (1998) and Classical Literary Theory and Criticism (2000). At present, he is working on a novel, a fictionalized biography of his father, Once upon a Time and also on a translation porject.