Augustan : The Augustan Age (43BC–18AD) was a most illustrious period in Latin literary history. “Augustan Age” is applied to 18th century England & less frequently to 17th century in France. In a narrow sense “English Augustan Age” applies to the reign of Queen Anne, in a broader to the period of Alexander Pope.
... Ode is long and elaborate and expresses properly high and broad, not intense emotion. This restriction to the statelier lyrical forms partly results from the attempt at classical dignity. But the Augustan tradition of smooth & regular verse has also hampered the writers; the cadences are not managed with sufficient subtlety and the infinitely varied and flexible verse of Shakespeare & Milton has remained... catches something of the true Miltonic tone; Gray's is marked by nobleness, strength, much real sublimity, but he is often betrayed into rhetoric tho' even then more vigorous than Akenside's and the Augustan love of epigram and antithesis often spoil his work; Collins' elevation tho' free from these faults is usually wanting in power. There is to some extent in Collins and still more in Gray a tendency... of the Pope school, who especially animadverts on it in his life of Collins & his remarks on Gray's sister Odes. Again they tried to deal with human emotion but there also they were hampered by the Augustan tradition. They deal with it rather in an abstract than a direct manner; Collins' Ode on the Passions is the main instance of this abstract handling of emotion which is peculiar to the school. In ...
... not have excited so vehement a reaction or fallen so low from its exaggerated pride of place. But the substance was too often on a par with the method and often below it. It took for its models the Augustan poets of Rome, but it substituted a certain perfection of polish and brilliance and often an element of superficiality and triviality for the strength and weight of the Latin manner. It followed more... has ideas and a strong or delicate power, a true nobility of character in Corneille, a fine grace of poetic sentiment and a supreme delicacy and fine passion in Racine. But the verse of these pseudo-Augustan writers does not call in these greater gifts: it is occupied with expressing thought, but its thought has most often little or none of the greater values. This Muse is all brain of facile reasoning... so pronounced a departure from the true or at least the higher line, that work gives the impression, if not of a resonant failure, at least of a fall or a considerable descent to lower levels. This Augustan age not only falls infinitely far below the Roman from which it drew so much of its inspiration, but gives an impression of great inferiority when compared with the work of the Victorians and one ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 The March of Civilisation The March of Civilisation WE are familiar with the phrase "Augustan Age": it is in reference to a particular period in a nation's history when its creative power is at its highest both in respect of quantity and quality, especially in the domain of art and literature... see epochs of high light in various countries spread out as towering beacons or soaring peaks bathed in sunlight dominating the flat plains or darksome valleys of the usual normal periods. Take the Augustan Age itself which has given the name: it is a very crucial and one of the earlier outflowerings of the human genius on a considerable scale. We know of the appearance of individuals on the stage of... gradually dwindled: it gave place to an age of consolidation, organisation, stabilisation – the classical age. The seventeenth century Europe marked another peak of Europe's civilisation. That is the Augustan Age to which we have referred. The following century marked a further decline of the Intuition and higher imagination and we come to the eighteenth century terre è terre rationalism. Great figures ...
... Evolution and the Earthly Destiny The March of Civilisation WE are familiar with the phrase "Augustan Age": it is in reference to a particular period in a nation's history when its creative power is at its highest both in respect of quantity and quality, especially in the domain of art and literature, for it is here that the soul of a people finds expression... see epochs of high light in various countries spread out as towering beacons or soaring peaks bathed in sunlight dominating the flat plains or darksome valleys of the usual normal periods. Take the Augustan Age itself which has given the name: it is a very crucial and one of the earlier outflowerings of the human genius on a considerable scale. We know of the appearance of individuals on the stage of... gradually dwindled: it gave place to an age of consolidation, organisation, stabilisation—the classical age. The seventeenth century Europe marked another peak of Europe's civilisation. That is the Augustan Age to which we have referred. The following century marked a further decline of the Intuition and higher imagination and we come to the eighteenth century terre a terre rationalism. Great figures ...
... On Poetry and Literature Early Cultural Writings Characteristics of Augustan Poetry Relation of Gray to the poetry of his times The poetry of Gray marks the transition from the eighteenth century or Augustan style of poetry to the nineteenth-century style; i.e. to say almost all the tendencies of poetry between the death of Pope and the production... reason & commonsense. There are no ideas in Augustan poetry which are not perfectly obvious and common, nothing which might not occur to an average educated man. This was fatal to poetry which to be poetry at all must be unusual; unusually lofty, unusually beautiful or unusually impassioned, & which dries up in an atmosphere of commonsense and commonplace. Augustan poetry has neither feeling for greatness... production of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798 are to be found in Gray's writings. Of the other poets of the time, Johnson & Goldsmith mark the last development of the Augustan style, while Collins, Blake, Cowper, Burns, Chatterton each embody in their poetry the beginnings of one or more tendencies which afterwards found their full expression in the nineteenth century. Gray alone seems to include in himself ...
... lifetime. Poetry. Circa 1898-1901. Editorial title. This piece was written in the Page 766 same notebook as the lecture on Augustan poetry (see the next note). Characteristics of Augustan Poetry. In the manuscript, "First Lecture" is written above the title. This piece and the following one were written by Sri Aurobindo while he was working as a professor ...
... epochs of a too self-satisfied intellectual enlightenment tend to appear to be in the eyes of the more deeply thinking ages, it fails to satisfy, unlike the Roman Augustan, the French grand century, or even in its own kind the English Augustan. It leaves an impression of a too cramped fullness and a too level curiosity. It is a descent into a comfortable and pretty hollow or a well-cultured flatness between ...
... evoking poetry from language of the commonest. The fourth phase of Classicism comes in the so-called Augustan Age of England, the age of Dryden and Pope. As Sri Aurobindo remarks: "It took for its models the Augustan poets of Rome, but it substituted for the strength and weight of the Latin manner an exceeding superficiality ...
... speak of the mind's native tongue being Milton's, we do not yet hit off the whole quality of his mental poetry. For, such poetry has several kinds of movement. And in the age - the so-called English "Augustan" - which succeeded that of Milton we have a skilful language of the mind - the language of Dryden, Pope and others - yet with-out the natural nobility which moves in Milton. Rather there is a polished ...
... of women but not ardently passionate Page 372 like Catullus, an Epicurean who took life gladly but not superficially—this was his character. As a poet he was the second among the great Augustan poets, a great master of phrase—the most quoted of all the Roman writers,—a dexterous metrist who fixed the chief lyric Greek metres in Latin in their definitive form, with a style and rhythm in which ...
... distinct lines of poetic consciousness run behind the world's outer life and mind, sending out shoots, so to speak, into the latter; and when these are received in abundance we have an Elizabethan, an Augustan, a Victorian or any other age of poetry with ruling characteristic notes. G.K.C., as I have already hinted, belongs in his defects as well as merits to the Elizabethan, though with a subtle difference ...
... Asoka,93,195 Asura, 18, 69-74, 186, 201, 234, 267, 272, 291, 376, 382-3, 386 Aswatthama, 298 Aswins, 9 Athena, 222 Atlantic, 210 Atlantis, 223 Augustan Age, 205, 212 Augustine, St., 150 Augustus, 207 Australia, 106 Avatara(s), 49, 55, 69, 161, 205, 261, 277, 286, 390 BAAL,220 Babylon, 223 Bacon ...
... might look for a good deal of deviation into themes and motives for which prose will always be the more adequate and characteristic instrument; we should not be surprised to meet here a self-styled Augustan age which makes these things the greater part of its realm and indulges with a self-satisfied contentment in a confident and obvious "criticism" of external life, preferring to more truly poetic forms ...
... sure I must have been many times born in Christian Europe -the age of Augustine, the age of Dante, the age of Leonardo are familiar to my being, just as are the period of ancient Athens and that of Augustan Rome as well as some post-medieval epochs in England and elsewhere. Page 150 Mention of the Secret Splendour sends me back to another postcard of yours, the one you sent me ...
... advent of Galileo and to have reached a world stature, so to speak, not prior to Newton. Hand in hand with its development went the rise of a new Classicism - the Miltonic, the French and the pseudo-Augustan. And by the time this happened the tide of the Renaissance had started ebbing. As part of the Renaissance's elan of the Life-force we have the literature of the first Romanticism and this ...
... quintessence of Kubla Khan In appearance, the second Romantic Movement started in England at the end of the eighteenth century by a revolt against the artificial "poetic diction" of the pseudo-Augustan Age. Wordsworth asked for a natural language and, though in some respects he went to an extreme by insisting on almost conversational naivete, what ultimately he and his contemporaries wanted was ...
... nment with the French Revolution when it gave rise to a dictator like Napoleon. The visionary poet and Nature-lover in him yielded place to the dry intellectual and prosaic moraliser of the Augustan age; the beautiful blend of Pantheism and Transcendentalism that had grown in him was replaced by a faith in the Orthodox Christian Church. He became obsessed with the role of a teacher and ...
... Your article with its epigraph from Horace has well touched the core of my poetic life with the words " musarum sacerdos " and taken them far beyond the priesthood of poetry practised in the Augustan Age. It is thought-provoking that Caesar Octavius, renamed Augustus, is an early manifestation of Sri Aurobindo of the vibhuti kind. No wonder the two greatest bards Augustus patronised were born ...
... Your article with the epigraph from Horace has well touched the core of my poetic life with the words "musarum sacerdos" and taken them far beyond the priesthood of the Muses practised in the Augustan Age of Rome. It is thought-provoking that Caesar Octavius, renamed Augustus, was, as we have come to know, an early manifestation of Sri Aurobindo not as an Avatar, a direct conscious expression of ...
... with India, the Consulate coins could very well have come. Against the background of the Manikjāla stūpas and the Hazara district of the Punjāb no convincing evidence exists that an influx of pre-Augustan denarii before the 1st century B.C. was not possible. In fact, the possibility of sporadic trade-contact or else occasional contact of culture between Rome and India is from 264 B.C. onward ...
... of the mind's native tongue being Milton's, we do not yet hit off the whole quality of his mental poetry. For, such poetry has several kinds of movement. And in the age - the so-called English "Augustan" - which succeeded that of Milton we have a skilful language of the mind - the language of Dryden, Pope and others - yet without the natural nobility which moves in Milton. Rather there is a polished ...
... period of Jesus' birth, which is thought to be eminently memorable because of it and because of the career that followed. But this period, we may remind ourselves, is known to general history as the Augustan Age. What is most striking as between the two illustrious contemporaries is that just as Jesus came to be called the Son of God, worshipped as divine and considered mankind's Saviour as ...
... and good wine, a lover of women but not ardently passionate like Catullus, an Epicurean who took life gladly but not superficial—that was his character. As a poet he was the second among the great Augustan poets, a great master of phrase—the most quoted of all the Roman writers—a dexterous metrist who fixed the chief lyric Greek metres in Latin in their definitive form, a style and rhythm in which ...
... world may die physically, but the formation, the creation, the achievement remains and continues to be alive in the terrestrial atmosphere, in the general consciousness of man. Ancient Greece is dead, Augustan Rome is gone, but the mind of light that Greece brought into play, the cast of social character that Rome established are among the permanent acquisitions of human culture and civilisation. They have ...
... rays all earthly life is dependent, was worked into the architecture and sculpture of the palace of Versailles. The Sun King patronized the arts and gave historians some reason to call his reign the "Augustan Age" of French culture. As befitted such a patron, the prevailing taste was classical, insisting on form, order, balance and proportion. The ideals of literature and art were "order, neatness, precision ...
... and looked at the photo of Principal Tait on the wall in front. He had no books or notes with him; everything was extempore. This procedure went on for one and a half hours. These notes were on the Augustan Age of English literature. "That same year agitation began in Bengal and his attention turned to it." The College students decided to have a photograph taken with their Professor before he left ...
... himself from mankind, but live in compas-sionate understanding of it. And this understanding was in many ways new. It has a new tenderness which is far removed from the aristocratic dignity of the Augustans or the princely splendours of the Elizabethans. In their attempts to under- Page 130 stand man in the depths of his being, the Romantics were moved by convictions which give a special ...
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