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Born in 1943 and educated at the University of Allahabad, Amar Nath Dwivedi has been teaching graduate and post-graduate classes since 1965, presently at the University of Allahabad, where he is a Reader in English. A recipient of State Bursary for four years (1961-65), he was awarded Teachers’ Research Grant by the ASRC (Hyderabad) in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1975 on his dissertation “Indian Thought and Tradition in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry”, which was later published in both India and Austria with a Foreword by Prof. Grover Smith of the Duke University, USA. Dr. Dwivedi has published about a dozen books and fifty-five research papers and articles. His articles and papers have appeared in such prestigious journals and periodicals at WLWE (USA), Explicator (USA), JSAL (USA), Reviews Journals (Austr.), The Aryan Path, Indian Literature, and The Banasthali Patrika. His translations of Hindi poetry have appeared in Voices of Emergency (edited by Prof. John O. Perry, 1982) and in The Poetry of R.L. Khandelwal ‘Tarun’ (1991). Dr. Dwivedi is listed in the International Who’s Who (“Men of achievement” and “Register of Intellectuals”) of Cambridge, UK, in the Book of Honor published by the ABI, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, USA and in the International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement of Cambridgeshire, England. He has participated in a number of national seminars and conferences and has delivered talks and recited poems over the AIR. He is on the board of advisers for the literary journals, New Literary Horizons and Canopy.