• ISBN13: 9788126937653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: September 14, 2023
• Pages: 266
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 420 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

The genius of T.S. Eliot contributed immensely in ushering modernism in poetry, play and literary criticism. Therefore, our knowledge of modernism will remain incomplete should we fail to understand Eliot. This book may serve as an introduction to Eliot, the man, the poet, the playwright and the critic. For the benefit of readers, it quotes in full, while introducing and explaining, the poet’s master-pieces, The Waste Land and Four Quartets, and also some of his other great poems. Further, it discusses about all of his five major plays, and nine important essays, at some length.

Dr. Sunil Kumar Sarker holds Ph.D. in both English and Philosophy. He is a Reader in Raiganj (University) College, Raiganj, West Bengal. Besides this book, he has already published ten books, most of which are on English Literature. At present, he is working on the Romantic Poets of English Literature.

• I. Life and Works
• II. The Shaping of the Poet
• III. Anti-Georgian and Pro-Classicist
• IV. New Theory and Technique of Poetry
• V. The Poems
• 1. Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
• (a) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• (b) Portrait of a Lady
• (c) Prelude
• (d) Rhapsody on a Windy Night
• (e) Conversation Galante
• (f) La Figlia Che Piange
• 2. Poems (1920)
• (a) Gerontion
• (b) Sweeney Erect
• (c) A Cooking Egg
• (d) Hyppopotamus
• (e) Whispers of Immortality
• 3. The Waste Land (1922)
• (a) The Burial of the Dead
• (b) A Game of Chess
• (c) The Fire Sermon
• (d) Death by Water
• 4. The Hollow Men (1925)
• 5. Ash-Wednesday (1930)
• 6. The Ariel Poems
• (a) Journey of the Magi
• (b) Animula
• 7. Four Quartets
• (a) Burnt Norton
• (b) East Coker
• (c) The Dry Salvages
• (d) Little Gidding
• VI. The Plays
• (a) Murder in the Cathedral
• (b) The Family Re union
• (c) The Cocktail Party
• (d) The Confidential Clerk
• (e) The Elder Statesman
• VII. The Prose
• (a) Tradition and the Individual Talent
• (b) The Function of Criticism
• (c) Hamlet
• (d) The Metaphysical Poets
• (e) A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry
• (f) The Perfect Critic
• (g) Imperfect Critics
• (h) ‘The Idea of a Christian Society’ and ‘Notes Towards the Definition of Culture’
• Bibliography
• Index