(Books) Objective English (English) Spectrum by Editorial Board

Objective English (English) Spectrum by Editorial Board

BOOK DETAILS

Publisher Spectrum Books Pvt. Ltd.

ISBN-10 8179301737

Number of Pages 513 Pages

Publication Year 2014

Language English

ISBN-13 9788179301739

Binding Paperback

About the Book

The present study offers a comprehensive critical perspective on T.S. Eliot, arguably the most widely read and discussed poet of the last century. The first Section of this book provides a perceptive introduction to the poet and his works, including his plays and criticism, while placing him in his socio-literary context. The next Section presents focussed critical interpretation and textual analysis of some twenty poems of Eliot—a selection from Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems 1920, and the Ariel Poems, besides the longer poems, The Hollow Men, The Waste Land and Ash-Wednesday. The third Section provides extensive annotations of each of the poems selected for the critical study. The critical discussion ranges over the subject matter, thematic development and stylistic features of each poem in particular and Eliot’s poetry in general.
About the Author
Arun Kumar Sinha retired as University Professor of English and Principal, Langat Singh College, B.R.A. Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, after teaching Literature for four decades (1961-2000) to college and university students. Besides contributing some literary essays, he has worked on Dylan Thomas and Mark Twain. He resides in Patna.
Kumar Vikram, a post-graduate in English Literature from University of Delhi, works in the Editorial Department of National Book Trust, India, New Delhi.
Table of Contents
Section I
An Introduction to T.S. Eliot and his Work
Life and Literary Background
The Poetry
The Literary Context
The ‘Sceptical’ Phase
The ‘Religious’ Poetry
Themes
Style and Versification
Structure
Imagery
The Verse Dramas
Eliot’s Contemporaries and ‘Successors’
Eliot’s Critical Work
Eliot on Critics and Criticism
Eliot on Poetry and Poets
An Evaluation of Eliot’s Criticism
Section II
Critical Readings of Selected Poems
A Note on Prufrock and Other Observations
From Prufrock and Other Observations
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
La Figlia Che Piange
A note on Poems 1920
From Poems 1920
Gerontion
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Sweeney Erect
A Cooking Egg
The Hippopotamus
Whispers of Immortality
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Waste Land
I. The Burial of the Dead
II. A Game of Chess
III. The Fire Sermon
IV. Death by Water
V. What the Thunder Said
The Hollow Men
Ash-Wednesday
A Note on the Ariel Poems
Ariel Poems
Journey of the Magi
A Song for Simeon
Animula
Marina
Section III
Annotations
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
La Figlia Che Piange
Gerontion
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Sweeney Erect
A Cooking Egg
The Hippopotamus
Whispers of Immortality
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Waste Land
I. The Burial of the Dead
II. A Game of Chess
III. The Fire Sermon
IV. Death by Water
V. What the Thunder Said
The Hollow Men
Ash-Wednesday
Journey of the Magi
A Song for Simeon
Animula
Marina
Appendices
I. Thomas Stearns Eliot: Acceptance Speech Nobel Prize for Literature, 1948
II. T.S. Eliot: A Chronological Account
III. References and Further Reading

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