Robert Frost is perhaps the most popular poet with Indian students and scholars. This is evident not only from the fact that any post-graduate study programme invariably includes Frost but also from the large number of doctoral and pre-doctoral dissertations with Frost as the subject of research and interpretation. Brar's study of Frost's symbolism, therefore, represents an aspect of this attraction to the Great American poet.

This boo basically deals with a pact who has attempted to broaden the horizons of knowledge and to enrich human experience through evocations.

An attempt has been made to present a comparative validity of background of American, French and English symbolists. Thus, the study covers the literary as well as socio-cultural background of the symbolist movement on various levels as it flourished in the modern English poetry. It is hoped, the book will be useful to young readers of Robert Frost to understand his symbolic technique and high drama of humanity depicted in his poetry.

The literature is not like a plane surface, spread out everywhere and equally visible in every part. It is like the soil, a secession of strata through which the explore must drive his shaft.

The Critical Essays in Literature with an Introduction by Paul Bourget is covering a compilation of selection from the great writers- ancient, medieval and modern. The main features are biographical and explanatory notes, critical essays etc.

The book will be of great interest to the research scholars and to the literary person but will be of general interest to those who love literature without any barriers of language or country.

Readings in English Literature is a collection of specimen from the best writers.

It consists of
(1) An Introduction, containing a series of short specimens from the early English writers, in prose and poetry, illustrative of the progress of the English language from the earliest times to 1558 A.D.;

(2)Readings in English Prose, a collection of specimens from the works of our best prose writers, from A.D. 1558 to 1860; and

(3) Readings in English Poetry, a collection of specimen from the works of our best poets, from A.D.1558 to 1860.

The Readings are arranged in chronological order, and are introduced by a short biographical notice of each author. The foot-notes contain explanations of difficulties in the text, and meanings of words.

New Issues: New Approaches is an important attempt to answer the needs of changing perceptions in changing time. Indian Scholar of English Literature cannot remain bonded to British Literature and Language. He seeks to expand his horizon by including not only whatever is written in English in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Africa but also literature in other major languages like Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali.

Besides established theories of literary criticism since the times of Plato, New genres and theories must also be acknowledged. The volume includes significant material on Patrick Brady's Chaos Theory-a very important development that must be known and understood. The volume includes the latest on the New Journalism too.