English Literature

Novel is arguably the most important genre of English literature. According to Jane Austen, the greatest powers of the mind are displayed in the novel. In fact, the whole body of literature is broadly categorised into (i) fiction—something that is...

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...

In the modern or postmodern world, James Joyce is not only a stupendous writer but also a definer of the genre. His works are considered essential readings within and beyond the academic mural. James Joyce: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a...

W.B. Yeats: Poetry and Plays studies the poetry and plays of William Butler Yeats, perhaps the greatest poet in the English language of his period, who is the connecting link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries in the field of liter...

Though sonnets are, generally, easy poems, Shakespeare’s sonnets are not, — and very naturally, he being a master-mind, — his sonnets are “far from easy to understand.” The principal objective of this book is to explain the sonnets for common read...

Most plays of Shakespeare are flushed with dramatic embellishing devices, such as music, dance, masque, pageant, ghost, apparition, dumb-show, clowning, jesting, etc., not only his romantic plays or comedies but also his tragedies and histories. A...

Coleridge was one of the few harbingers of Romanticism in England, and the enunciator of psychological criticism. One will certainly miss English Romanticism of about 150 years, if he does not interest himself in Coleridge. One of the most loving ...

There is no poet in English Literature like Milton : so firm in religious conviction, so fierce in politics, so high in poetic flight, so grand in style, so great in scholarship, so beautiful in appearance, so overbearing in attitude, so stoical i...

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 t...

This is perhaps the most comprehensive book on Wordsworth, highlighting 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 mos...

This is perhaps the most comprehensive book on Wordsworth, highlighting 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 mos...

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 impo...

Philip (Arthur) Larkin (1922-85) is one of the foremost poets who flourished in the post-World War II era of English literature. He is widely taught in universities and colleges as earnestly in India as abroad. A Companion to Philip Larkin is des...

Philip (Arthur) Larkin (1922-85) is one of the foremost poets who flourished in the post-World War II era of English literature. He is widely taught in universities and colleges as earnestly in India as abroad. A Companion to Philip Larkin is des...

Philip (Arthur) Larkin (1922-85) is one of the foremost poets who flourished in the post-World War II era of English literature. He is widely taught in universities and colleges as earnestly in India as abroad. A Companion to Philip Larkin is des...

The book is a Companion in the figure of a Guide (something like: “Everman I will go with thee and be thy guide/ in thy most need to go by thy side.”) to Hemingway, for the common reader. Hemingway is not so easy a read. He is slyly facile. This b...

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 k...

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 k...

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 k...

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 k...