Literary Artists on Sustainable Development : A Critical Study of English Literature.

Abstract Modern human beings who have been enjoying enormous benefits of science and technology are very much concerned with environmental issues and sustainable development. In various fields development has been being done but a question peeps in mind whether that development in a true sense is sustainable or not. Again the existing external environment is being threatened by the rapid progress in the name of development. It creates a conflict between the better environment and the rapid scientific and technological development. It prompts the social thinkers, scientists , technologists , philosophers and even the writers who review the situation in the world and try to find out a suitable solution to come out of the crisis. Normally it is not expected that the literary writers would talk about new scientific inventions. But the impact of new inventions on human society is very much tracable in the literary compositions mainly of the Victorian and Modern British authors. We may give a fresh look into the literary works of William Wordsworth , Lord Tennyson, Mathew Arnold , T.S.Eliot and others about their thoughts concerned with development. The objective of the research paper is to explore the ideas of these writers in connection with so called environmental issues and sustainable development. These writers have hinted that the external development by the rampant use of science and technology perhaps cannot develop human society in real sense. Rather the so called development has put human society in new troubles in the psychic world.