The Thunder And The Sunshine

Summary: "Arriving in Cape Town with Rita (his bike), Alastair was a long, long way from his home in Yorkshire. He cycled the length of South and North America, the breadth of Asia and back across Europe, crossing the mountains and salt-flats of South America, canoeing the Five-Finger Rapids of the Yukon River and braving a Siberian Winter with the flimsiest tent."--Publisher description.

This book is for students who need a comprehensive understanding of the poems which are generally studied in English courses at undergraduate or post-graduate levels. This book features some of the representative poets of the Victorian and Modern times. This does not go to say that the other poets are less important. This selection offers poems which are academically studied, and studying which, the students would gain a comprehensive understanding of the ages which the poems belong to. This book unites scholars of different institutions, most of whom have previously worked with me in bringing out another book, a collection of articles, titled, Through the Literary Glass (Educreation, 2017). Contributors (names appear alphabetically): Aaron Edwards, Ankita Pandey, Anuradha Dosad, Koushik Dey, Pritesh Chakraborty, Shruti Roy Chakraborti, Subrata Ray, Sunayan Mukherjee, Tanusree Roy. Featured Poets: Tennyson, Browning, Owen, Yeats, Eliot

For a considerable number of years I had been a resident in London, which city I regarded alternately as my Paradise and my House of Bondage. I am by no means one of those who are always ready to fling opprobrious epithets at London, such as 'a pestilent wen,' a cluster of 'squalid villages,' and the like; on the contrary, I regard London as the most fascinating of all cities, with the one exception of that city of Eternal Memories beside the Tiber. But even Horace loved the olive-groves of Tivoli more than the far-ranged splendours of the Palatine; and I may be pardoned if an occasional vision of green fields often left my eye insensitive to metropolitan attractions.

V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.