The present work is a pioneering effort to highlight life and works of the choicest great English poets. This work gives a vivid account of their life events and critique of their literary works by various learned commentators on him. Certainly this will be useful and information for students, researchers and teachers besides the general readers. The volumewise organization is as follows : John Donne
John Milton
Edmund Spenser
William Blake
Robert Browning
John Dryden
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman

John Donne (b. 1572) is considered as the founder of Metaphysical Poets. This book consists of twelve chapters highlighting life and literary achievements of John Donne. An analytical approach is adopted in discussion. The main themes discussed are: John Donne: An Overview; Donne's "Elegy 19": The Busk between a Pair of Bodies; Talking to a Silent God: Donne's Holy Sonnets and the Via Negative; The Act of Preaching and the Art of Prophesying; Donnie's Atomies and Anatomies: Deconstructed Bodies; Theology and Spirituality: Notes on the Mystical Christology of John Donne; "Forget the Hee and Shee": Gender and Play in John Donne; Lover as Logician: Donne's Amorous Poetry; Jonson and Carew of Donne: Censure into Praise; The Title/Headings of Donnie's English Epigrams; John Donne and the Baroque Doubt; John Donne and Elizabethan Economy Theory; etc. This book will benefit the teachers and students s well.

John Milton is widely considered among the five greatest poets in the domain of English language.

This book is an attempt to portray his life events and present competent critique on his literary works by various reputed scholars.

The book consists of the following chapter: John Milton: An Overview; Arminianism and Antinomianism: Milton's Paradise Lost and the Construction of the Modern Conscience; After the Sentence of the Law: Fictional Consciousness in Milton's Samson; The Tyranny of Heav'n: Milton, Magistrates, and the Rhetoric of Satan's Protestantism in Paradise Lost; England as Israel in Milton's Writings; Protocols of Reading: Milton and Biography; Milton's Areopagitica and the modern First Amendment; "Ay me": Selfishness and Empathy in "Lycidas"; Paradise Lost and the Acoustics of Hell; etc.

This work will prove of utmost use for students, teachers and researchers in the field.

The foremost poet of his time, Spenser (b. 1552), was not only a master of meter and language but a profound moral poet also. This book consists of the following chapters: Edmund Spenser: An Overview; "Wise Handling and Faire Governance": Spenser's Female Educators; A 'Goodlie Bridge' Between the Old and the New: The Transformation of Complaint in Spenser's The Ruines of Time; Translated Geographies: Edmund Spenser's "The Ruines of Time"; Spenser and the Culture of Place; Women's Friendship and the Refusal of Lesbian Desire in the Faerie Queene; The Influence of Spenser's Faierie Queene on Kyd' Spanish Tragedy; "In Sort as She it Sung": Spenser's "Doleful Lay" and the Construction of Female Authorship; The Faerie Queene among the Disciplines; etc.

This book will prove highly useful and informative to all concerned.