The Thesis is something of a tour-de-force. I am impressed with the ability shown here to argue out and to analyse critical theories and to present a Cogent and extremely lucid argument. There is no question of the Candidate's Competence. It is publishable as a genuine Contribution to learning and notably to Eliot Studies. Dr. Haydn Moore Williams. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay has offered us some interesting and amazing insights into several points of Concurrence between Critical theories relating to the process of Creation and appreciation of Poetry as projected by T.S. Eliot in his critical essays and those enunciated by Indian Critics Centuries back. He has shown how they held identical views on the idea of tradition, the impersonality of the Poetic Art, and the use of Poetry and the use of Criticism. Professor Subhas Sarkar It is refreshing that the writer of the present dissertation has made a bold attempt to analyse Eliot's views on five fundamental problems concerning the Creative process by applying the yardsticks adopted by Indian Aesthetics and to locate the similarities in the thought currents projected by some of the noted Indian thinkers and Eliot. The author has been able to break an altogether new ground, and on this account he deserves Congratulation from the Community of Critics. Professor Jagannath Chakravarti

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