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omparative Study of the Indian Poetics and the Western Poetics . New Delhi : Sarup & Sons, 2008.
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British Studies on Wordsworth . New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2003.
The reputation of Wordsworth, once regarded as the most important exponent of English Romanticism, has, strangely, been quite controversial, and the critical reception of his poetry had many ups and downs. If Arnold considers him “one of the chief glories of English poetry” Byron considers him “ a hireling poet and a prince of dullness”. Yet, Southey held that a greater poet than Wordsworth there never has been or will be ; and Tennyson was grateful to Wordsworth for what he had learned from him.
It will be salutary to revisit Wordsworth , with the benefit of hindsight, through the essays included in this volume most of which were written more than hundred years ago, and draw our independent conclusions. The students and teachers of English literature will certainly find these historically valuable essays, some of which are not easily accessible these days, very useful and exciting, and a scholar on Wordsworth can least afford to ignore them…