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Synopsis The present volume brings together essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of the country and abroad. These essays were originally delivered as Memorial Lectures in the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University. The volume offers a rich fare of literary discourse by seeking to build a bridge between the Eastern and the Western intellectual traditions. Immensely diverse in range, if on the one hand it deals with the canonical authors and critics – from Shakespeare to W.B. Yeats, from Dr. Johnson to the New Critics and the Structuralists – from New perspectives; then on the other, it opens up new frontiers by seeking to establish the contemporaneity of the Indian Poetics and the Bhakti tradition. It also sets out new challenges before the Indian Scholars in the Emersonian fashion.