Majeed Amjad, the great poetic genius presented his novel thoughts and ideas with great competency which conferred him distinctive position among his contemporaries i. e. Noon Meem Rashid, Meera Ji, Mukhtar Siddiqui, Jafar Tahir & Nasir Shahzad. Majeed Amjad was greatly influenced by English poets. Most of the tools, devices and figures of speech he used to create peculiar rhythm were derived from western tradition of poetry rather than oriental tradition. He held excellent command over the tools like assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, syncopation, modulation and many others. He followed great masters of English poetry and innovated different types of stanzas and unique rhyme schemes. It has been a dire need for critical appraisal of Majeed Amjad in the perspective of English tradition of poetry and criticism. In this article I have tried to explore the grey areas of Majeed Amjad poetry in the context of Swinburne, Hopkins, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost.

1.    Wazeer Agha, Majeed Amjad: Tawazun ki ek Misal in Nazm-e-Jadeed ki Karwaten, (Lahore: Meri Library, 1974), p. 93, 1^st Ed.

2.     An Interview with Majeed Amjad by Dr. Khwaja Muhammad Zakaria in Gulab kay Phool, Ed. By Muhammad Hayat Khan Sial, (Lahore: Meri Library, 1978), p. 30, 1^st Ed.

3.      David Daiches, Critical Approaches to Literature, (London: Longman, 1965), p. 295

4.      Ibid, p. 326

5.      T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays, (London: Faber & Faber, 1951), p. 327

6.      Ibid, 326

7.    I. A. Richard, Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement, Ed. By John Constable, (London: Routledge, 1960), p. 208

8.  Alernon Charles Swinburne, The Work of Alernon Charles Swinburne, (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1995), p. 220

9.    Majeed Amjad, Lauh-e-Dil in Kulliyat-e-Majeed Amjad, Ed. Taj Saeed, (Peshawar: Maktaba-e-Arzang, 1987), p. 49

10.  Robert Frost, New Hampshire, (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1923), p. 87

11.  It is a term coined by Hopkins himself and attributed to him in Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary.

12.  H. Humfray & S. Graham (Ed.), The Journals and Papers of Gerald Manley Hopkins, (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 289

13.  Ibid

14.  Majeed Amjad, Ye Qissa Hasil-e-Jan Hai in Kulliyat-e-Majeed Amjad, p. 318

15.  Ibid, Kitta-e-Pak, ibid, p. 313

16.  Ibid, Hawas, ibid, p. 319

17.  Ibid, Accident, ibid, p. 335

18.  Ibid, Apni Ankhon Pay Patti, ibid, p. 336

19.  J. H. Miller, The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers, (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000)

20.  H. Coombes, Literature and Criticism, (Allahabad: Kitab Mahal Pvt. Ltd., 1963), p. 25

21.  C. M. Bowra, The Romantic Imagination, (London: Oxford University Press, p. 1963), p. 194

22. H. Humfary & S. Graham, (Ed.), The Journals and Papers of Gerald Manley Hopkins, (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 19

23.  T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays, p. 327

Sources

1.      Agha, Wazeer, Majeed Amjad: Tawazun ki ek Misal in Nazm-e-Jadeed ki Karwaten, Lahore: Meri Library, 1974

2.      Amjad, Majeed, Kulliyat-e-Majeed Amjad, Ed. Taj Saeed, Peshawar: Maktaba-e-Arzang, 1987

3.      Bowra, C. M., The Romantic Imagination, London: Oxford University Press, p. 1963

4.      Coombes, H., Literature and Criticism, Allahabad: Kitab Mahal Pvt. Ltd., 1963

5.      Daiches, David, Critical Approaches to Literature, London: Longman, 1965

6.      Eliot, T. S., Selected Essays, London: Faber & Faber, 1951

7.      Frost, Robert, New Hampshire, New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1923

8.   Humfray, H. & Graham, S. (Editors), The Journals and Papers of Gerald Manley Hopkins, London: Oxford University Press, 1959

9.   Miller, J. H., The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000

10.  Richard, I. A., Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement, Ed. By John Constable, London: Routledge, 1960

11. Swinburne, Alernon Charles, The Work of Alernon Charles Swinburne, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1995

Interview

1.     An Interview with Majeed Amjad by Dr. Khwaja Muhammad Zakaria in Gulab kay Phool, Ed. By Muhammad Hayat Khan Sial, Lahore: Meri Library, 1978, 1^st Ed.