• ISBN13: 9788126900312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: March 6, 2001
• Pages: 160
• Original Price: INR 295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 150 grams

T.S. Eliot remains one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century, and perhaps the greatest. There has, however, been quite a dearth of critical material on his early poetry which has largely perplexed literary critics. This book provides, for the first time, a lucid exposition of Prufrock and Other Observations 1917 and Poems 1920. Viewing the poems in the larger context of the poet-critic’s life and works, it repudiates a great many assumptions about his early poetry, bridges the artificial gulf between the early and the later work, and makes for greater clarity of understanding. A fascinating study of Eliot’s spiritual odyssey, it would definitely appeal to lovers of his poetry.

C.R. Mittal, M.A. (First-class), PGDTE (CIEFL, Hyderabad), Ph.D., is Reader in English at the Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has taught English literature to graduate and post-graduate classes for over thirty years and has specialised in English poetry. Two volumes of his poems, Aches of Heart and My Own Circle, and a collection of his stories, essays and a playlet, Around the Corner, have been brought out by the Writers Workshop, Calcutta. Dr. Mittal has for several years been a Counsellor of IGNOU to its students in Creative Writing in English.