• ISBN13: 9788171569267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: August 21, 2000
• Pages: 204
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 210 grams

The book is the most authentic one ever written on the subject. Apart from its wide-ranging and usually inaccessible materials, it has been written in such a lively and fluent style that it ravishes both the uninitiated and the expert, the common reader and the Scholar. Besides, having functional utility for examinations, interviews and competitions, and elite occasions, it is a source of critical strength and ideas for any reader of taste and interest irrespective of his particular language, literature and department. “Mohammad Hanif has made a diligent collection of material from and about T.S. Eliot’s critical writings and has arranged it straightforwardly in eight chapters, on the sources of Eliot’s ideas, on his views about poetry, criticism, drama and the novel and his style is lively, clear and forceful on the whole ----.----- He roused by attention by some first-hand observation on a point of detail (for instance, Eliot and Benda, on Eliot’s possible debt to Pater and on Eliot’s humour). The inclusion of chapter 6 on Eliot’s criticism of the nover is welcome and Mr. Hanif does show that Eliot ranged widely in this department of literature ------------.”

Dr. Mohammad Hanif was born in a hamlet, named Khoobanj, District, Jehanabad, Bihar. He did his M.A. in English from Patna University, Patna and Ph.D. from the same university in 1972, under the supervision of Dr. R.K. Sinha, D. Phil., Oxford, (Ex-Head and Prof. Patna University) on the Topic “The Theory and Practice of Criticism in T.S. Eliot.” Dr. Hanif has written a number of critical books as well as critical articles for various journals and radio-broadcasts. He also writes in Urdu and has been honoured by the Bihar Urdu Academy. He recently retired as Professor from Post-Graduate Department of English, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya Bihar.