The present volume of Studies in Literature in English is brought out in response to the growing demand for this series by our erudite readers. The twenty brilliant essays that constitute this volume offer new insights into old authors. Starting with the Bard of Avon, the good old Shakespeare, perennial and inexhaustible, we make an intellectual excursion into the world of the English canonical authors: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Keats, Emily Bronte, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, George Orwell and William Golding. Then, for a change, we meet the noted American critic, R.S. Crane and conclude our excursion with a visit to the celebrated Canadian critic, Northrop Frye. It is really fascinating to see how all these old authors are still amenable to new interpretations, and, more importantly, how they stand the test and the taste of modern critics. It is amazing, for example, to see how brilliantly Shakespeare comes off even when examined by the Indian criteria of the poetic relish. One special attraction of this volume is the classic essay by the great nineteenth century American expert, James Russell Lowell, who guides us through the world of Wordsworth and reveals before us the essential Wordsworth with all his achievements and limitations. Anybody going through this volume is bound to be impressed as much by the extraordinary richness and variety of subjects as by the critical insights of the authors. Since the authors discussed in this volume are studied in all the universities, the teachers, scholars, and students of Literature in English will find this book extremely useful. The common readers who are interested in Literature in English will also experience this book as a delightful and rewarding intellectual excursion.

Table of Contents:
1. King Lear in the Light of Rasa Theory –Kunj Bala Goel 2. Significance of Verbal Repetition: A Study of Macbeth –Jaydeep Sarangi 3. Wordsworth –James Russell Lowell 4. Critical Canons and Poetic Practice –Anjani K. Srivastava 5. Coleridge as a Romantic Critic –Jibesh Bhattacharyya 6. Patterns of Love and Marriage in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Emma –Kumar Chandradeep 7. Romantic Effect and Personal Element of Keats in “La Belle Dame sans Merci” –N. Narasimha Ramayya 8. The Innocence of Catherine in Wuthering Heights –Aroonima Sinha 9. Crisis of Faith in W.B. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Byzantium” and “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” –M.A. Nare 10. W.B. Yeats: A True Nationalist –Jibesh Bhattacharyya 11. The Maturing Structure of Moments in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway –Surekha Dangwal 12. Sleeping Beauty Motif and the Fictional Vision of D.H. Lawrence –Joyjit Ghosh 13. Family Plot: The Rainbow –Bhaskar Roy Barman 14. Dramatic Conflict in the Plays of D.H. Lawrence –N. Narasimha Ramayya 15. Eliot’s Theory of Tradition and Its Relationship with Criticism –Jyoti V. Zahir 16. Problematising the Self: Persona in Eliot’s Early Poetry –S.P. Singha 17. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Negative Utopia –Susheel Kumar Sharma 18. Golding’s Lord of the Flies: A Satanic Verse –Sharda Iyer 19. R.S. Crane’s “Critical and Historical Principles of Literary History”: A Note –Asit Kumar Biswas 20. Northrop Frye on Canadian Poetry –Mohan Ramanan