English Literature

Nissim Ezekiel is one of those few men of letters who become legends in their life-time. A playwright of credentials, a critic of encyclopaedic ran...

The poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (fourth revised and enlarged edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth analysis ...

The book presents some of the unexplored facts about Keats’ poetry. Keats has been an important poet of romanticism. The poetic works of John Keats...

John Keats was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He belonged to a ...

Nissim Ezekiel is probably the most famous living Indian poet in English. Displaying a dedication of heroic dimensions to his vocation, he has crea...

The Poetry of Robert Browning is a major study of Browning and his art. It marks an improvement over the earlier studies of Browning’s poetry in th...

This book fulfils the difficult task of quickening, and elucidating, fortifying and enlarging the poetry of two important poets of our time: Robert...

The Poetry of T.S. Eliot offers an interpretation of Eliot's poetry in the Indian context, examining its intersections with the viewpoints of Weste...

The present anthology of interpretative essays and research papers is a unique effort to approach the great nineteenth-century American poet Walt W...

The Poetry of William Shakespeare includes Shakespeare’s sonnets in complete along with his longer poems Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and...

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transplanted ...

The prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefully maintain ...

What is the fate of two unknowingly identical boys who exchange their lives? The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain is a historical satire set in ...

Before Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a classic among ...

To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must...

Set in the rural Midlands of England, the Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the brangwen family, conveying how their rural exist...

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel, first published in 1895. Taking place during the American Civil War, it is the story about...

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothingThe Republic by Plato embarks on a profound exploration of justice,...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 in the Strand Mag...

The Return of the Native, both powerful and sombre, is considered to be the most representative of Hardy’s novels. It is set in Egdon Heath whose l...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, begin...

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a ...