The Lyric Spring

The Lyric Spring

by P.V.Rajyalakshmi


The Lyric offers for the first time an exhaustive and sensitive study of Sarojini Naidu's poetic achievement. The author presents the major themes of Mrs Naidu's poetic world and provedes valuable critical explications of many individual poems, showing throuhout how the poet's work is unified by a pattern of creative progression as well as an inner consistency of vision. The study clearly brings out how Mrs Naidu's delicate fancy and lyric passion are effectively controlled by her extraordinary grasp of the reality of human emotion and aspiration. By making a forceful case for revising the prevalent opinion of Mrs Naidu as a list and forgotten poet of India, The Lyric Spring bids fair to be a major publishing event in the criticism of Indian Writing in English.


About The Author:


Dr (Mrs) P.V. Rajyalakshmi was born at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, in 1942. After obtaining the Four Year Homours Degree in 1965 in English Language and Literature at the Andhara University, Waltair, she taught at Deogiri College, Marathwada University, Aurangabad, from 1965 to 1969. In 1969 she joinde the English department of the Andhra University Postgraduate Centre. Guntur, as a Research Fellow, pursuing her research in Indian Writing in English under the supervision of Professor D.V.K. Raghavacharyulu. She was awarded the Ph.D. Degree of the Andhra University in 1974, During 1974-75 she was associated with a UGC Book Writing Project on American Literature as a Senior Research Fellow. In july 1975 she joined the English department at the Postgraduate Center as a Lecturer, She is currently at work on a study of the Women Writers in Indo-Anglian Literature.

Dr Rajyalakshmi is married to Dr venkatacharyulu who lectures in the Physics Department of the Postgraduate Centre (now the Nagarjuna University). They have two daughters and a son.