• ISBN13: 9788126902316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: June 21, 2003
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: INR 450.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 230 grams

The reputation of Wordsworth, once regarded as the most important exponent of English Romanticism, has, strangely, been quite controversial, and the critical reception of his poetry had many ups and downs. If Arnold considers him “one of the chief glories of English poetry” Byron considers him as “a hireling poet and a prince of dullness,” and it is a fact that never in his lifetime Wordsworth came near to such popularity as that of Scott or Byron. Yet, Southey whom Wordsworth succeeded as Poet Laureate held that a greater poet than Wordsworth there never has been or will be. Tennyson was grateful to Wordsworth for what he had learned from him and kept his admiration for him on record in his verse.
It will be salutary to revisit Wordsworth, with the benefit of hindsight, through the essays included in this volume most of which were written more than hundred years ago, and draw our independent conclusions. The students and teachers of English literature will certainly find these historically valuable essays, some of which are not easily accessible these days, very useful and exciting, and a scholar on Wordsworth can least afford to ignore them.
Contents: Wordsworth’s Life: An Outline, Coleridge on Wordsworth, Hazlitt on Wordsworth, De Quincey on Wordsworth, Arnold on Wordsworth, Morley on Wordsworth, Herford on Wordsworth, Elton on Wordsworth.

Mohit K. Ray, a full Professor since 1982, is one of the senior most professors in the country. He has published three books and a large number of research papers in scholarly journals in India and abroad, which reflect his wide range of scholarship including Criticism, Comparative Literature, New Literature, Canonical Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies.
Professor Ray is associated with many international bodies, and has attended and chaired sessions as an invited participant in many international conferences, Seminars and Colloquia held in different parts of the globe — England, France, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Estonia, America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, etc.
Professor Ray has studied several languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, German, etc.
He has edited several anthologies of critical studies and edits three research journals including The Atlantic Critical Review.