A rare embodiment of the Brahminical virtue of learning, a.K. Ramanujan was one of the most prodigious of creative writers that modern India has produced. A polyglot scholar, a colossal translator, a Hardcore linguist, an instinctive folklorist, a bilingual writer par excellence, a discerning critic and above all, the finest English-language poet of India, He had virtually become an `ambassador de letters' At the time of his demise in 1993. A Padmashri winner among several other laurels, Ramanujan was honoured with the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award on his collected poems by the National Academy of letters in 1999, posthumously. As a writer of Encyclopaedic range and stupendous cultural awareness, Ramanujan invites a collective project for a precise evaluation of his creative virtuosity and millennium perspectives on a.K. Ramanujan in an attempt at appreciating his poetry in its proper context.

SURYA NATH PANDEY (b. 1946) holds a First Class First M.A. (English) degree with BHU Medal and a Doctorate from Banaras Hindu University; has been associated with post-graduate teaching and research in English at his alma mater for over three decades as Lecturer; Reader and Professor since February 1992; has authored an extensively reviewed book of criticism Stephen Spender: A Study in Poetic Growth (1982) published simultaneously from three Continents: Humanities Press, New Jersey, USA; Salzburg University Press, Austria and Arnold-Heinemann, New Delhi; and Studies in Contemporary Poets (1998); has also edited The Temperate Zone: Essays on Post-Second War Poetry, Nissim Ezekiel: Dimensions of a Poetic Genius, Writing in a Post-Colonial Space, Contemporary Indian Women Writers in English: A Feminist Perspective and Millennium Perspectives on A.K. Ramanujan; has published more than two dozen research articles on major twentieth century writers; has produced ten Ph.Ds. in Modern Literature and is supervising half a dozen doctoral dissertations at present; has conducted two UGC major research projects in contemporary poetry as Principal Investigator; is presently doing a book Myth of the Home: Literature of the Indian Diaspora. Dr. Pandey is a Senior Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University.

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• Publication Date: March 6, 2001
• Pages: 188
• ISBN13: 9788171569748
• Item Weight: 200 grams
• Original Price: 395.0 INR
• Edition: N/A
• Binding: Hardcover