This book is the outcome of the author’s continued study and research in T.S. Eliot literature, demonstrating as it does his valid critical insight and sound judgement. There are scholars who might initially differ with him in regard to his formulations about Eliot’s indebtedness to Indian thought and tradition, but they will have to accept them ultimately in the presence of well-researched and well-documented internal and external evidences. Even established Western scholars like Grover Smith of the Duke University and Charles M. Holmes of the Transylvania University, U.S.A., besides a host of Indian professors and scholars, have acknowledged the truth.
The book comprising eighteen papers present a comprehensive view of Eliot and bring out his multi-pronged genius.
Eliot was an American by birth and education, an Anglo-Catholic by religion, a Britisher by way of ‘naturalized citizenship’, a deep-rooted European by sense of culture, a ‘universal poet’ and an ‘international hero’ by means of his creative talent and art.
The book highlightes Eliot’s literary personality and the different aspects of his creative art. These papers undoubtedly broaden the scope of approach to Eliot.
The book is designed in such a way that it will attract both common and specialist readers.
Dr. Amar Nath Dwivedi (born in 1943) has been teaching graduate and post-graduate classes since 1965, presently at the University of Allahabad, Allahbad (U.P.). his Ph.D. on “Indian Thought and Tradition in T.S. Eliot’s poetry,’ was published in 1977 with a Foreword by Grover Smith, the well-known Eliot scholar of the Duke University, U.S.A. Dr. Dwivedi has published about a dozen books of literary criticism, including two on T.S. Eliot and about seventy research papers and articles in various journals and periodicals of the country and abroad, such as Indian Literature, Commonwealth Quarterly, Language Forum, Creative Forum, IJAS, WLWE (U.S.A.), JSAL (U.S.A.), Explicator (U.S.A.), WLT (U.S.A.) and Reviews Journal (Australia). He has also contributed about half a dozen poems in translation (from Hindi into English) to Voices of Emergency edited by Prof. John O. Perry and published simultaneously from India and America. Dr. Dwivedi is listed in the International Who’s Who (in “Men of Achievement’, “Register of Intellectuals, etc.) of Cambridge, U.K., in the Book of Honor published by the A.B.I. Inc. of Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A., and in the International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement of Cambridgeshire, England. He has participated in many national seminars and conferences, and has delivered talks and recited his poems in English over the A.I.R. He is on the board of advisors for the literary journals, The Quest, Vedic Path, Canopy and New Literary Horizons.
