PREFACE

Harold Bloom has once observed:"All literature is plagiarism. It wages Oedipal wars with its predecessors".It's Bloom's attempt to "de-idealise"literay influences which perhaps impelled him into making such a sweeping observation. But to his surprise, his predictions proved correct,and especially in post-modern contemporary poetry,there are extensive indications to show-case the examples of "tradition"becoming the leit-motif,more specifically in poetry. In Eliot's own poetry, for instance, in his tour de force of a poem, "The Waste Land",there is a heavy influence of the French symbolist poets, Ezra Pound, Mellarme and Malaraux. Eliot has once said: "Immature poets imitate, while the mature steal". Eliot's oeuvre carries on,what he calls, the twin burdens of influences, "Tradition and individual Talent",in tandemHe has succeeded in securely laying the scaffold for a new," trendy " poetry that influenced many generations of post-modern writing.

Significantly termed as "Found Poetry", Eliot's poetry leaves a quintessetial influence on contemporary American and British poets. I attempted, in a modest way ,to "recreate "the nuanced tradition of Eliot's poetry in the bunch of poems you'll find, here. I feel, I've succeeded in my attempts to re-recreat much of the nuanced beauty of post-modernism.And it's left to the future generation to decide and validate the esthetic beauty and relevance of the poetic tradition.

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Rtd Professor of English. Had published six books of poetry both in India and in the US. He had been a director of research, and has published umpteen research papers. Written six books of poetry which were published both in India and in the US. Recipient of a medal and a silver moment from the US. He had been a research director, and as many as researchers received doctoral degrees who worked with him. anthologies of poetry, both in India and the US. Had been a research director, and published umpteen research papers. His accomplishments had brought him a medal and a silver cup from the US. hed six collections of poetry,He had been the Research Director.Had published umpteen books and research papers. articles..