Abercrombie, Lascelles : (1881-1938) English poet & critic.
... Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history Index Abercrombie, Lascelles, 177 Agastya, 384 Ahana, 69, 71,169, 619; earlier version, The Descent of Ahana, 620; dramatic cast, 620; the Divine Charter, 622; Eden and Brindavan, 623ff; a dream and a vision, 624; handling of the hexameter, 626ff Ahmed, Asanuddin, 259 Aiyar, S. Doraiswami, 530, 579 ...
... Savitri Index Abb é Bremond 316 Abercrombie, Lascelles 283,375,409,445 A.E. (George Russell) 266,306 Aeschylus 267 53,318,319,458 Aiyangar, Narayan 279 Alexander, Samuel 436 Anouilh, Jean 267 Ariosto31,383 Arnold, Sir Edwin 335 Arnold ...
... Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, and Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, have now been reissued by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.) II. BOOKS BY OTHERS Abercrombie, Lascelles. The Idea of Great Poetry (Martin Seeker, London, 3 rd Impression, 1926). A.E. Voices of the Stones (Macmilian, London, 1925). The House of the Titans (Macmillan, London, 1934) ...
... reality, allegorical. Dante himself distinguishes between the two senses in a poem, literal and allegorical. Even in Milton's Paradise Lost the pure story element is absent. According to Lascelles Abercrombie: "Milton from the knowledge of himself created Satan and Christ." His angels are not like Homer's Gods. To Homer the Gods are close and real, but Milton's angels are far and seem abstract... Savitri is planned like the Ramayana on a small scale, but it is full-bodied in its subject matter. Though from the standpoint of length Savitri surpasses all European epics, yet critics like Abercrombie hold the opinion that length by itself is not enough for an epic. It is the sustained breath of inspiration, the high tone of poetical expression that are important for it. It is neither ...
... accents. Thus the rhythm obtained is purely accentual, in accordance with the genius of the English language; but a new freedom has been achieved within the confines of a new kind of discipline."—Lascelles Abercrombie , Poetry: Its Music and Meaning (London: Oxford University Press, 1932), p. 35. × The "dictum" ...
... English and American poets" which my correspondent speaks of in support of his scientific modernity is, I fear, pretty poor when compared to the work of Bridges, Masefield, Gordon Bottomley, Lascelles Abercrombie, AE and Yeats - none of them pledged whole-heartedly to science. Yeats is acknowledged universally as the greatest English poet of our age. What does his poetry consist of? In his youth ...
... poetic style and technique of these two quotations. The first is... The next quotation illustrates Kipling's Tommy-Atkins-music at its most vivid and onomatopoeic — lines considered by Lascelles Abercrombie to be a masterly fusion of all the elements necessary in poetic technique: Lest you want your toes trod off you'd better get back at once, For the bullocks are walking two by... Aurobindo: My verdict on Kipling's lines would be that they are fit for the columns of The Illustrated Weekly of India and nowhere else. I refuse to accept this journalistic jingle as poetry. As for Abercrombie's comment, - unspeakable rubbish, unhappily spoken." (12) Abercrombiean acrobacy: AK: Why have you bucked at my "azure" as a line-ending? And why so late in the day? Twice before I have... no alarm. Simple poetic licence, Sir. If Wordsworth could write What awful perspective; while from our sight... and leave no reverberation of "awful" in the reader's mind, and if Abercrombie boldly come out with To smite the horny eyes of men With the renown of our Heaven Page 188 and our horny eyes remain unsmitten by his topsyturvy "Heaven" - why, then ...
... imaginative argument on life's why and whence and whither, as Lucretius often does, Dante in several places, Milton not seldom, Goethe at times, Shelley on occasion, Wordsworth repeatedly, Lascelles Abercrombie in a notable measure, Hardy to a certain extent, Sri Aurobindo in a good part of his middle-period work. Neither does Homer pause at scattered points to impress on us directly his vision of ...
... new order will cry out to be born, the integral personality of Sri Aurobindo will be the most creative figure; for, he alone can justly declare in Page 83 the words of Lascelles Abercrombie: I have Golden within me the whole fate of man. "He alone", I have said. But a qualification is demanded, which yet diminishes nowise the essence of the statement. Sri Aurobindo ...
... and the Mahabharata with its 2,20,000 lines, by their very size, admit of an encyclopaedic range. Of course, mere length is no proof of vastness of conception or richness of content. As Lascelles Abercrombie perceptively puts it, "length in itself is nothing, but the plain fact is that a long poem, if it really is a poem,... enables a remarkable range, not merely of experience, but of kinds of ...
... difficulty. We need not go into it in detail. We may just illustrate an aspect of it which becomes relevant by our mention of Hugo and Hernani. Lucas quotes Lascelles Abercrombie as opposing Romanticism to Realism. By Realism· Abercrombie means not the literary creed of a Zola with its insistence on crude raw life but the utilitarian habit of mipd of a Bentham. "Romanticism," he writes, "is withdrawal ...
... the simple voices with which he began; nevertheless, the innovation is worth weighing Page 321 because of a few astonishing triumphs. Being contemporaneous with Lascelles Abercrombie and Gordon Bottomley, the two poets who have influenced modern blank verse most, he models his with rather a free and quick hand, pushing nervously the idea-vision into the language when he ...
... majority of his work lies among the simple voices with which he began; nevertheless, the innovation is worth weighing because of a few astonishing triumphs. Being contemporaneous with Lascelles Abercrombie and Page 36 Gordon Bottomley, the two poets who have influenced modern blank verse most, he models his with rather a free and quick hand, pushing nervously the idea-vision ...
... itself be influenced automatically by the process of upward evolution and thus create higher and higher beauty and delight. Page 250 28-9-1943 The talk centred round Lascelles Abercrombie's idea of great poetry. His general thesis is that literature is communication of experience involving three factors : 1. Subjective, 2. Objective, 3. Medium of communication. Disciple... object to the claim that he ever created Christ. Disciple : About Dante Abercrombie says that he created Beatrice and her memory was always with him. Sri Aurobindo : What about Dante's political life? I am sure he was not thinking of Beatrice when he was doing politics. Disciple : Abercrombie says that a true poet passes on his experience to his readers. Sri Aurobindo... Disciple : But different people feel differently. Sri Aurobindo : So there cannot be a, universal standard. Each one goes by his feeling or opinion or liking. Disciple : Abercrombie tries to give a general criterion. Only one point I remember just now : he says that if the outlook of the poet is negative and pessimistic, his poetry cannot be "great" – e.g. Hardy. Sri ...
... Manley Hopkins' polyphony "at its most magnificent and intricate": The next quotation illustrates Kipling's Tommy-Atkins-music at its most vivid and onomatopoeic—lines considered by Lascelles Abercrombie to be a masterly fusion of all the elements necessary in poetic technique: 'Less you want your toes trod off you'd better get back at once, For the bullocks are walking two by two, ... My verdict on Kipling's lines would be that they are fit for the columns of The Illustrated Weekly of India and nowhere else. I refuse to accept this journalistic jingle as poetry. As for Abercrombie's comment,—unspeakable rubbish, unhappily spoken! Hopkins is a different proposition; he is a poet, which Kipling never was nor could be. He has vision, power, originality; but his technique errs ...
... belong no more To misery and destruction; but to love Love is the truth of being. 6 Ultimately through love the purification of the world was effected and then 2 See Lascelles Abercrombie, Romanticism, London, (1926), p. 93. 2 Ibid., p. 94. 4 Ibid., p. 95. 5 Ibid., p. 95. 6 Ibid., p. 99. Page 469 ...all the people of the world ...
... the century in which the poem was composed — the date being 1899 — everything in it is refreshingly modern in craftsmanship. So much modulation and change of pace connect up with the art of Lascelles Abercrombie and Gordon Bottomley. These poets have a more colloquial turn of phrase: Sri Aurobindo, free though he is from making a cult of the precious, is less inclined to the homely than they, but like ...
... What K.D. Sethna finds in Love and Death is nothing less than a superb mastery, something quite out of the ordinary: So much modulation and change of pace connect up with the art of Lascelles Abercrombie and Gordon Bottomley. These poets have a more colloquial turn of phrase: Sri Aurobindo, free though he is from making a cult of the precious, is less inclined to the homely than they, but like ...
... has made a reliable symbol out of his own experience. In Milton's Paradise Lost the pure story element is absent. "Milton from the knowledge of himself created Satan and Christ," — says Lascelles Abercrombie. His angels are not like Homer's Gods. To Homer the Gods are close and real, whereas Milton's angels are far and seem abstract. Milton's story deals with the mystery of the individual will... concerned, therefore it is to be taken as a full-fledged epic. Though from the point of length Savitri already overpasses that of all European epics, yet all earnest critics would agree with Abercrombie that length by itself is not enough to gain the stature of epic greatness for a poem. It is the sustained breath of inspiration, the high tone of poetical expression that are important. Between ...
... Dante has made a reliable symbol out of his own experience. In Milton's Paradise Lost the pure story element is absent. "Milton from the knowledge of himself created Satan and Christ"—says Lascelles Abercrombie. His angels are not like Homer's Gods. To Homer the Gods are close and real, whereas Milton's angels are far and seem abstract. Milton's story deals with the mystery of the individual will in... is concerned, therefore it is to be taken as a full-fledged epic. Though from the point of length Sāvitrī already overpasses that of all European epics yet all earnest critics would agree with Abercrombie that length by itself is not enough to gain the stature of epic greatness for a poem. It is the sustained breath of inspiration, the high tone of poetical expression that are important. Between ...
... l. Perhaps equally poetic are Lascelles Abercrombie's Tall hills that stand in weather-blinded trances As if they heard, drawn upward and held there. Page 81 Some god's eternal tune, but the direct spiritual rhythmic turn is absent. Apt and euphonious language carrying a mystically pointed thought and image is achieved by Abercrombie: what Wordsworth has done is to... to catch, in the very rhythm of the line, "some god's eternal tune" instead of speaking about it. The result is that the sleep he does speak of has the stuff of some god's experience while Abercrombie's weather-blinded trances are only a felicitous thought-reflection of the godlike. It is the rhythm that most decisively distinguishes one plane of conscious being from another. For, rhythm is... is that each level can have its perfection of poetic outburst. Difference in kind enables us to see how the quotation from Wordsworth, without necessarily being superior qua poetry to that from Abercrombie, is more close to the hidden Divine by deriving its rhythm from a more spiritual plane. And it is also by a different kind of rhythm, more even than of vision and expression, that we perceive how ...
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