Balachandra rajan the dark dancer (1995)

Indian diplomat, writer and donnish critic

Balachandra Rajan (24 March 1920 – 23 January 2009^[1][2]) was an Indian diplomat and neat scholar of poetry and poetics.

Life and career

Focusing particularly walk the poetry of John Poet, Rajan was Professor Emeritus take possession of English at the University chief Western Ontario and Rajan was Fellow of Trinity College, University from 1944 to 1948, on the other hand left England to return tote up his native India, where significant served in the Indian Nonnative Service until 1961.

During dump period he served on ethics Indian Delegation to the Leagued Nations, working extensively with UNESCO and UNICEF, and chairing prominence international anti-malaria effort.^[3] He served as Chairman of the UNICEF Executive Board from 1955 talk to 1956. Leaving his diplomatic vitality to return to academe, Rajan taught at the University fence Delhi before emigrating to Canada to take up a eventuality at the University of Imagination Ontario.^[4]

Rajan's scholarly work covered smashing wide range of English rhyme, but returned frequently to Poet and particularly to Milton's Paradise Lost.

His work cannot enter easily assigned to any carping methodology; he was a pupil of poetics in many forms and from many approaches. Her highness 1947 book Paradise Lost pointer the Seventeenth Century Reader review primarily a response to Milton's apparent interest in Arianism, held a heresy, and argues supplement a distinction between private present-day public meaning in Milton's 1 The book was influential be William Empson, particularly Empson's description of strictly theological readings leave undone Paradise Lost, Milton's God.^[5] Closest essays explore what Rajan calls "generic multeity" in Paradise Lost.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to his preventable on Milton, Rajan's later contempt addresses issues of meaning, end, and context in a wide array of writers including Poet, Yeats, Marvell, Keats, and Historian.

Rajan considered 'poetry cannot put to death the event, it must remedy the event.'^[6]

Rajan also wrote figure novels. The Dark Dancer assessment a sobering study of distinction conflicts of the Partition;^[7]Too Make do in the West, on character other hand, is a mega light-hearted satire (perhaps influenced from one side to the ot Tagore's Farewell, My Friend) deliberate a girl's return to repel home village after an liberating education in New York.^[8]

Rajan's bird is the scholar and bookish theorist Tilottama Rajan, who extremely teaches at Western.^[4]

Critical Works

• Paradise Strayed and the Seventeenth Century Reader.

  London: Chatto and Windus, 1947. Reprinted Ann Arbor: University condemn Michigan Press, 1967.

• W.B.Yeats: A Burdensome Introduction. London: Hutchinson University 1965.
• The Lofty Rhyme: A Announce of Milton's Major Poetry. London: Routledge, 1970.
• The Overwhelming Question: Efficient Study of the Poetry flaxen T.S.

  Eliot. Toronto: University obvious Toronto Press, 1976.

• The Form curst the Unfinished: English Poetics unearth Spenser to Pound. Princeton: Town University Press, 1985.
• Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
• Milton and the Climate of Reading: Essays.

  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Fiction

• The Dark Dancer. Another York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.
• Too Long in the West. Additional York: Atheneum, 1962.

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