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	W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems by Vidya Bhaskar and Sabina Chawla Price Rs. 175 This book presents a selection of poems of W.B. Yeats along with a critical reading of Yeats ’s poetry. The approach is contextual: a brief overview of the life and times of the writer is provided along with the historical and literary background, followed by a discussion of the writer’s literary themes and stylistic techniques. Major critical perspectives on the poet and his work are incorporated in the general introduction, which is followed by the text of the poems. Each poem is accompanied by detailed annotations and textual analysis of important passages besides a critical discussion of themes and stylistic features of the particular work.

	Mark Twain Kuckleberry Finn Price Rs. 175 Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is an evergreen American literary classic that appeals to children and adults alike. It is a book that reveals fresh meanings at every re-reading. Professor Sinha's introduction discusses in depth the thematic, structural and stylistic aspects of the novel.

	T.S. Eliot An Intensive Study of Selected Poems by Arun Kumar Sinha and Kumar Vikram Price Rs. 195 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.

	Philip Larkin A Critical Evalution by B.G. Tandan Price Rs. 105 Philip Larkin is considered the most significant poet of the Movement, giving expression to a clipped, antiromantic sensibility manifest in English poetry of the 1950s. His own poems are not without emotion, but it is an understated emotion. Dr.B.G. Tandon has discussed Larkin's poetry in its thematic and stylistic aspects, besides annotating and critically evaluating some of his poems most widely prescribed for study in universities.

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