Blake, William : (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver, & visionary.
... pictures, valued at £75,000, to the nation, but also contributed £80,000 towards the cost of the building. We were delighted to see masterpieces—especially the paintings of Joshua Reynolds, William Blake, William Turner, Auguste Renoir, Constable, Wilson, Sargent and Sickert. I was impressed by the painting Heads of Angels by Reynolds. As a matter of fact, he had painted his daughter in different poses ...
... Bharati, Subramania 376 Bhartrihari 45 Bhasa 48,376 Bhavabhuti 376 Bhave, Vinoba 25 Bhawani Mandir 27,28 Blake, William 310,311,333,424,462 Boehme.Jacob 20,333,361 Boodin, John Elof 435,439,448,457 Bowra,C.M.375,380,383 Bradley, A.C. 425 Breul, Karl 426 ...
... metaphysical poet and mystic. Crashaw, Richard (1613 -1649). English poet of metaphysical inspiration. Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907): English poet, author of "Hound of Heaven". 54. Blake, William (1757 -1827). English poet, painter and mystic. 55. Esha: Maya's daughter. 56. Adhar Das: a Professor of Philosophy at Calcutta University. 57. The typed letter continues with the ...
... Poems and Prophecies by William Blake (Everyman's Library, London), 1939. Psalms Raine, Kathleen Blake and Tradition, Two Volumes (Bollingen Series XXXV -No.11, Princeton University Press, U. S. A.), 1968. "Blake's Debt to Antiquity", The Sewanee Review, Summer, 1963, Vol. LXXI, No. 3. Also Bollingen Paperback (Princeton, 1977): Blake and Antiquity. "The Little... York), 1958. Damon, Foster S. "Blake and Milton" in The Divine Vision, Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto (Gollancz, London), 1957. Eliot, T. S. Selected Poems - T. S. Eliot (Penguin Poets, Harmondsworth), 1948. Ezekiel Frye, Northrop "Blake After Two Centuries" in English Romantic Poets, Modern Essays in Criticism, edited... Page 267 Kazin, Alfred The Portable Blake, Selected and Arranged with an Introduction by Alfred Kazin (The Viking Press, New York), 1946. Kelley, Maurice The Great Argument (Princeton), 1941. Keynes, Geoffrey Blake Studies (London), 1949. The Complete Writings of William Blake, Edited with all the variant readings (The Nonesuch Press, London) ...
... Voids, Newtonian, 251 War in Heaven, 158-67,182-88,192-97 Wars of Eternity, 150,151 Wheels, of Heaven, Satanic, starry, 173,174,241,244,251 William Blake, 4 fn. 10,23 fn. 8,146 fn. 35 "William Blake and Modern Psychology", 141 fn. 8 Williamson, George, 41 Wickstead, Joseph H., 132,136 fn. 21 wings, 49,50,51,92,93-96,105,106, 120,224-26 Witcutt... 135 Platonists, 28 Pleroma, 252 Plowman, Dorothy, 144 fn. 18 Plowman, Max, 133,134 Pluto, 134,135 Poems and Prophecies by William Blake, 133 fn. 13 "Poetic Genius, the", 70,216 Porphyry, 134 Portable Blake, The, 22 fn. 5 "Preludium", 159 Preface to Paradise Lost, A, 102 fn. 162 Proclus, 134 Prophecy, 264 'Prospectus", 231... 157, 159, 161 , 212, 214. 215 , 228 Blake: A Psychological Study , 225 fn .282 Blake and Modern Thought, 246 Blake and Tradition , v. 25 fn. 11 , 263 Blake as Artist, 3, 5 , 54, 132-33, 135, 136, 236 Blake Studies, 344 "Blake's Debt to Antiquity", 25 fn. 11 , 168 fn . 109, l Blake's Innocence and Experience , 132 fn. 11 Blake's Poetical Works, 141 fn. 5 ...
... references in my book. K.D.S., 1987) 2."William Blake" in From Blake to Byron, edited by Boris Ford (Pelican Books, Harmondsworth), 1957, pp. 68-69. 3. Ibid., pp. 69, 70. Page 2 foreign to the tautness and strength of the state of mind Blake invites us to share." 4 We may further grant the simplest reading to be not really what Blake condemned when he wrote to Dr. J. Trusler... 9. Ibid., p. 442. 10. William Blake (Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans Green & Co., London, New York, Toronto), 1951, p. 25. Page 4 For, Blake's middle world seems considerably to overpass the dubious, fluctuant mass of what we commonly term "psychical phenomena." According to Sri Aurobindo, 11 "Blake lives ordinarily far up in this... associations that mean most to him." 3 We may also sympathise with Harding's recoil from expositions that have "a parish-magazine quality of sentiment... totally 1. The Complete Writings of William Blake, with all the variant readings, edited by Geoffrey Keynes (The Nonesuch Press, London), 1957, p. 214. (The later edition published by the Oxford University Press, London, in 1966, under the same ...
... suggestion . The pictured Tyger's quaintness should be no surprise . That on occasion Blake made his illustrations actually puzzling vis-à-vis the texts is also a fact. And at least with regard to the poems, The Little Girl Lost and its sequel The Little Girl 13. Poems and Prophecies by William Blake, edited by Max Plowman (Everyman's Library, London), 1939, Introduction , p. XXV. ... of sexual pleasure... Blake describes Lyca as seven summers old; but in the first design she is shown as a nubile virgin, and in the last, as (presumably) the mother of the babes playing round 14.Keynes, ed. cit., p. 825 (The Letters, 27). 15."The Little Girl Lost and Found and the Lapsed Soul" in The Divine Vision, Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake, edited by Vivian de... Blake's Tyger 5 The Poem in Process and in Illustration We come now to a necessary preliminary to the task of setting The Tyger in the general context of Blake's work in order finally to confirm our reading of its symbolism. We shall examine the several alternatives and corrections and additions in Blake's original draft of the poem and then the choice ...
... From Kathleen Raine I have received and read your Blake's Tyger with delight. I must, I think, concede you the victory - your laying out of the whole map of Blake's inner world and its dynamics in the context of Milton's poem does convince. Whether when Blake wrote The Tyger he himself as yet saw that whole universe as a whole scarcely matters, since... that Blake and Milton's mythological world - the same inner universe, in many essentials - is the terrain of the Tyger. I would still put in a plea for the Gnostic-Hermetic sources, for Blake was, after all, immersed in Boehme and Paracelsus at that time. Also for my view that the symbols of the poem are inseparable, you can't say the forests existed 'before' the tyger, they go together. Blake was... lah's review of the Tyger will go in - 1 think she sent you a copy. She is herself deep in Blake and enjoyed plunging into the 'wars of Intellect'. She is in England at present and we are going up together to a Sufi community in Scotland to whom I have promised a week on Blake's Job engravings, Blake's final word on the transforming power of the Imagination. I am still hoping that your contribution ...
... with difficulty find one amongst his cardinals who knows so much about Christianity); who can write a book about the Black Lady on William Shakespeare and who can with credit break lances with Kathleen Raine, the foremost authority of our times on William Blake; and who can write a book which makes an in-depth study of French poet Stephane Mallarmé ; and another on the origin of Israel and ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2 William Blake: “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” THE ideal was Blake's. It will not sound so revolting if we understand what the poet meant by Hell. Hell, he explains, is simply the body, the Energy of Life – hell, because body and life on earth were so considered by the orthodox Christianity. The Christian... is, as we know, the ideal of the ascetic. The life of the spirit (in. heaven) is a thing away from and stands against the life of the flesh (on earth). In the face of this discipline, countering it, Blake posited a union, a marriage of the two, considered incompatibles and incommensurables. Enfant terrible that he was, he took an infinite delight in a spirit of contradiction and went on expatiating... Yajnavalkya, declared. The earliest dream of humanity is also the last fulfilment. The Vedic Rishis sang of the marriage of heaven and earth – Heaven is my father and this Earth my mother. And Blake and Nietzsche are fiery apostles of that dream and ideal in an age crippled with doubt, falsehood, smallness, crookedness, impotence, colossal ignorance. We welcome voices that speak of this ancient ...
... and Amal Kiran's love for English literature and the love both have for William Blake. The correspondence begins with Amal Kiran's manuscript of Blake studies which had been sent to Kathleen Raine by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar spent some time cogitating upon the approaches of Amal Kiran and Kathleen Raine to Blake's poem and wrote to Amal Kiran: As in your study of Shakespeare's... subjects, was editing a highly admired journal, Mother India and teaching English poetry to Indian students. He came in contact with Miss Raine because of his studies in William Blake and his Christological interpretation of Blake's Tyger. Kathleen Raine was already a big name in English writing by 1960. Born on 14th June 1908 in Essex, Raine had a happy childhood, adored by her parents. A... was not writing as much as she should, she managed to publish more than a dozen books of poetry in the six decades of her active poetic career. Her spiritual inclinations drew her to a poet like William Blake and to India. She considered India to be a beautiful land, its people beautiful metaphorically and literally. This view of life no doubt inspired her to launch the magazine Temenos4 for she felt ...
... incapable, helpless. Panic fluttered in my whole being like the beating of a thousand frenzied wings. A series of thoughts swarmed into my brain and vibrated intensely. Sleep was elusive. But William Blake has said: Great things are done when men and mountain meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. The succeeding morning of Friday 20th December 1957 I received a big professional ...
... treated by Blake in English as singular -quite justifiably because its termination is singular-sounding to the English ear. Adopting the literal meaning, he uses in certain contexts the expression "Living Creatures" for his Zoas. 8. Vide W. P. Witcutt's "William Blake and Modern Psychology" in John O'London's Weekly, April 4, 1947, pp. 317-318. Page 141 note that Blake himself... "Siris"). 31. Ibid., p. 533 (Milton, II, 40, 11.36-37). 32. Ibid., p. 4% ( ibid., I, 15, 1.11). 33. Ibid., p. 682 (Jerusalem, III, 52). 34. Op. cit., p. 384. 35. William Blake (Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans Green & Co., London, New York, Toronto), 1951, p. 25. 36.In The Divine Vision, p. 48, fn. 1. Page 146 ... suggestions for our poem from Blake's other writings. Here we come up against the most accomplished of Blake-students - Kathleen Raine, some of whose views we have already glanced at from a certain standpoint. She has given The Tyger itself the subtlest and most comprehensive treatment possible within the framework of a general Blake-interpretation according to Blake's affinities with the sources ...
... Pondicherry, 1952). Roy, Pratap Chandra. The Mahabharata, Vol. II, Vana Parva, English Translation (Datta Bose & Co, Calcutta). Rudd, Margaret. Divided Image : A Study of William Blake and W. B. Yeats (Roudedge, London, 1953). Ruggiero, Guido de. Existentialism, translated from the original Italian by E. M. Cocks (Seeker 8c Warburg, London, 1946)... (Kegan Paul, London, 1927). Bullett, Gerald. The English Mystics (Michael Joseph, London, 1950). Page 486 Camoens, Luis Vas De. The Lusiads, translated by William Atkinson (Tenguin Books, London, 1952). Cassirer, Ernst. Language and Myth, translated by Susanne K. Langer (Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1946). Chardin, Pierre Teilhard... Paradise, translated by Henry Francis Cary (Oxford University Press, London, 1923). The Divine Comedy, translated by Charles Eliot Norton (Great Books of the Western World, William Benton, Chicago, 1952). Das, Abinas Chandra. Rig-Vedic India, Vol. I (The University of Calcutta, 1921). Deshmukh, P.S. The Origin and Development of Religion in Vedic Literature ...
... result of being overcome by some force, some panic-striking foe? Several annotators have approached this idea in a brief generalized manner. F.F. Monk 9 may be chosen to represent 8. William Blake (Chatto & Windus), p. 31, fn. 9. Representative English Poetry (London), 1927, p. 51. Page 23 them: "The stars are here thought of as armed angels, throwing down their weapons... personal pronoun for even the Deity seems to be Blake's general practice. And actually Sir Geoffrey Keynes 4 tells us the same thing when he discusses Blake's spelling, capitals and abbreviations. A second linguistic point about the creative "he" is: "The personal pronoun is introduced without a personal noun preceding and preparing it. If Blake had written - What immortal's hand or eye -... Raine 11 is in no doubt that the stars are supernatural beings. She identifies them with those in a myth of Blake's elsewhere, containing the lines: 11. "Blake's Debt to Antiquity", The Sewanee Review, Summer 1963, Vol. LXXI, No. 3, pp. 434-435. The corresponding reference in Raine's Blake and Tradition (Bollingen Series XXXV-11, Princeton University Press, 1968) is: Vol. II, p. 29. In this book ...
... 1. English Blake (Cambridge), l949, p. 140. 2. Cf. S. Foster Damon: "...the works of Milton influenced Blake more than any other book except the Bible" ("Blake and Milton" in The Divine Vision, Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto [London], 1957, p. 95). Also Northrop Frye: "Blake...was brought upon the Bible and on Milton" ("Blake After Two Centuries"... not but serve to kindle Blake's imagination in the form in which we find it. Here, since Blake knew his Milton backwards and forwards, it would not be whimsical to make a remark on the mere words "ascend" and "wings" as they must have played in Blake's memory from Milton. Once in Paradise Lost they occur together in the very way to serve as a starting-point for Blake's line. Their togetherness... would encourage and fulfil all trends in a Miltonized Blake to send his Christ aspiring on wings is some influence of the fact we discussed at almost the outset - namely, that apart from the fiery character displayed in the battle-context Milton's Christ is Blake's Satan and Milton's Satan Blake's Christ. If the Satan of Paradise Lost conveys to Blake the fire and desire, the energy and exuberance, proper ...
... the view of tiny Paris years and years ago and kept quiet. William Morris must have known that view times without number there. For when he was in Paris for a fairly long stay he began to go every day to the Eiffel Tower and sit from morning to evening, perched high there. At last, after a month of daily visit, a friend said to him: "William, what makes you so fond of the Eiffel Tower?" Morris replied:... direct or indirect smoothing and linking hold on what comes from deeper or higher sources, a hold which falsifies or at least weakens their truth and robs them of their sheer soul-stirring force. Blake in England, nearly a hundred years earlier, was the only poet who was in several ways a Mal-larmean Symbolist. Page 221 ... fire-arms." This editor's comment satirises the mistake people often commit of thinking that togetherness always shows or breeds fondness. Appearances can be quite deceptive. I remember the case of William Morris and the Eiffel Tower. I'll come to it shortly. You must have seen a picture of the Eiffel Tower. It is an all-iron structure rising 1000 feet in the air from the midst of Paris. I have actually ...
... came I from spiritual vision and audition! by trying to make 19 Kathleen Raine, William Blake, p. 7. Page 478 it intellectual. He transcribed what he saw and heard." Sri Aurobindo easily meets the charge of obscurity that is generally levelled against Blake's poetry: "His occasional obscurity — he is more often in his best poems lucid and crystal clear — is due to... envisaged by Blake and by Sri Aurobindo. But while Blake predicated such divinisation only for the individual, Sri Aurobindo sees divine transformation going on in the cosmic process itself. Although Blake too did see the vision of "Jerusalem" being established in "London", we wonder if this vision had acquired with him the full cosmic sense that was Sri Aurobindo's. And further, although Blake's "spiritual... biological and rational man evolving into the spiritual. Blake stands out among the mystic poets of Europe. Kathleen Raine ranks him "as one of the half-dozen greatest men of genius of the modem world," and regards him as one of those spiritual presences that are felt in the world." 19 Sri Aurobindo writes about Blake's creative process that "he did not let his mind disfigure what came ...
... Sri Aurobindo [ Kalidasa : Second Series (Pondicherry, 1954), pp. 13-14]. It may matter to the pedant or the gossip within me whether the sonnets were written to William Herbert or to Henry Wriothesley or to William Himself, whether the dark woman whom Shakespeare loved against his better judgment was Mary Fitton or someone else or nobody at all... but to the lover of poetry in me these... Aurobindo's delicately poised and nuanced judgment as literary critic his contrastive comparison between Shakespeare and Whitman and his rejection of the view of A.E. Housman who claimed superiority for Blake over Shakespeare as a pure poet. Along the way, Sethna brings forward several acute incidental observations of Sri Aurobindo sparked off in the course of other discussion. Examples are such... detailed, step-by-step argument, picking his way carefully but assuredly amidst a mass of conflicting evidence, by way of a precise identification. The 'fair youth', friend and patron and what not, is William Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke. Sethna sees in the Dark Lady, the other love of the 'two loves' in the Sonnets , a continental lady with the name he conjectures to be Anastasia Guglielma. Sethna would ...
... hanging flowers, Sometimes they're hot gold patches of the sun.. . 50 which is a vivid enough and realistic enough description of the man-eaters in an Indian jungle; but here is William Blake— Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?— and what a difference... The last lines but feebly echo the first; as in Thompson's The Hound of Heaven, here too the chase of discovery is over; the wheel has come full circle; the revelation is complete. Turner and Blake both write about the Tiger; but one is the creation of the vital or mental aesthesis, the other is a torrent of suggestion or an onrush of power from a higher plane. Another example: ...
... sensitivity 124 spirit 269 Yogi 6 Avatar's work 63,273 Avidya 259,302 avyakta 302 B Beddoes 197 Benson, Robert Hugh 23 Binyon, Laurence 210,223 Blake 153,197 blank-verse 102,215 Brahma-muhurta 253 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 302 brhat 302 Browning, Elizabeth 60,161 C Celtic fire and ether 197 ChadwickJohnA... KD. Sethna (Amal Kiran) 2."A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal": An Interpretation from India 3.Adventures in Criticism 4.Amal Kiran - Poet and Critic 5.Aspects of Sri Aurobindo 6.Blake's Tyger: A Christological Interpretation 7.Classical and Romantic : An Approach through Sri Aurobindo 8.. Indian Poets and English Poetry: Correspondence between Kathleen Raine and KD. Sethna... construction 245 linguistic adventurousness of 284 metrical and rhythmical effects 53, 109,169,215 monosyllables 111,188,349 technique of 6,244 Shāh-Nāmāh 60 Shakespeare, William 42,164,166, 188,205,230,237 Shelley 23,42,67,70,197,334,367 siddha 303,304 silence 87,228,265 of mind 344 Sophocles 205 soul description 115 evolving 81 ...
... self of the Bhagavad Gita and other texts of course. I feel that if you were to show Sri Aurobindo a sparrow, he would say, 'That's nothing, I will show you a super-bird.' To which I, Tagore, William Blake, would reply, 'I don't need a super-bird, this is the Creation that God found good.' Meanwhile your book on Mallarme arrived yesterday and I look forward very much to reading it. I only... the poet to reveal such things, the daily miracle and mystery. As Blake did when he was able To sec a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. That to me is visionary poetry, not Aurobindo's super-bird in superland. Or Blake's passage: Thou seest the gorgeous clothed Flies that dance... When with our vegetable eyes we view these wondrous visions . Blake neither wanted nor needed super-flies, and neither I think did Tagore, nor Kalidasa, for the task of the poet is to see the eternal in the world as each day creates the marvels daily before our eyes. To the 'Man of Imagination' (Blake's phrase again) 'Nature is one continued vision of Fancy or Imagination.' It has ...
... time but without any particular connection with Blake, though I could see that both he and Blake had equally sensitive entries into the "middle worlds'', the occult planes which are "behind" our physical-vital-mental cosmos rather than "beyond", where the true spiritual supernature is. The vistas the two poets "insight" of those worlds are different. Blake, apart from his "innocent" lyrics, seems to have... a progression. For us all, I hope, for I shall be seventy-nine this year. It seems I must send you a copy of my 'Yeats the Initiate.' I did not know that you, like myself, had moved from Blake to his greatest follower. In return perhaps you could review the book somewhere. I think it will interest you. A very brilliant Indian scholar, whose doctorate thesis I read for Delhi University... could send by sea-mail to save too much expense) will acquaint me more closely with his latest development and most profoundly enlighten me to the full on the theme of his having been, as you say, Blake's "greatest follower." I am not sure whether the Shaivite teaching which seems connected with the "Steinach technique" Yeats underwent is that teaching in its inmost aspect. The sense of it which ...
... and Crabbe.(5) The school of romantic poets & restorers of mediaevalism, consisting of Chatterton, Macpherson and Percy. (6) The Scotch lyric poets of whom Ferguson and Burns are the head. (7) William Blake standing by himself as a romantic, mystical& lyric poet. Besides these there are two writers who cannot Page 134 be classed, Smart & Beattie. Last come the first nineteenth century poets ...
... Morning Disciple : We heard from you that some people consider Blake greater than Shakespeare – is it correct? Sri Aurobindo : I did not say that. What Housman says is that Blake has more pure poetry than Shakespeare. Disciple : What does he mean by that? Sri Aurobindo : He means that Blake’s poetry is not vital or mental, i.e. intellectual, but comes from beyond... deal with quite different spheres, can the comparison be valid? Or, if Blake really has more pure poetry, then can he be said to be greater than Shakespeare? Sri Aurobindo : Shakespeare is superior in one way, Blake in another. Shakespeare is greater because he has a greater poetic power and more creative force, while Blake is more expressive. Disciple : What is the difference between... just the expression of feeling, vision or experience. In the Hound of Heaven you get a true creative picture. Blake is confused and was a failure when he tried to be creative in his prophetic poems. Disciple : Did you write to X that in life Shakespeare is everywhere and Blake nowhere? Sri Aurobindo : Yes , it is true. Page 241 Disciple : But can we compare ...
... all—it is to the intellect nonsense. He says that the interpretations of Blake's famous poem rather spoil them—they appeal better without being dissected in that way. His theory is questionable but that is what it comes to; he is wrong in using the word "nonsense" and perhaps in speaking of pure and impure poetry. All the same, to Blake and to writers of the Dream Consciousness, his rejection of the intellectual... then you destroy its poetical appeal. Very great Page 423 poetry can be written in that way from the subliminal depths, e.g. Mallarmé, but it needs a supreme power of expression, like Blake's or Mallarmé's, to make it truly powerful, convincing, and there must be sincerity of experience and significant rhythm. 2 August 1943 Surrealism What the deuce is this Surrealism? I gather... Christina Rossetti. Perhaps something on Gerard Manly Hopkins wouldn't be uninteresting, too. Among non-mystical poets there are some omissions also: Chapman, for instance—and in the recent group, William Watson, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman and Robert Bridges. Page 413 I did not deal with all these poets because it was not in the scope of my idea to review the whole literature, but to follow ...
... destiny of this earth. I suppose I would see it as Blake does, that Governments seek to promote natural and depress 'spiritual wars'. In the Spiritual War we are all engaged, and I am myself much in the front line here in Page 239 England - Blake's war, and all our war of the eternal against the temporal truths. As for Yudhisthira, Blake wrote, A truth that's told with bad intent ... gifts. I never dreamt there was a "Yeats Society of India". The next thing I'll hear of will be a Blake Society! And that would bring you to India just as imperatively. Perhaps the two poets will be juxtaposed for you if in the "week or two" that you will be in India my long-waiting book - Blake's Tyger: A Christotogical Interpretation - which is at the stage of its cover getting stuck to the bound... because of our detailed dealings with Blake's enigmatic beast of prey. I think our different readings of that symbol will remain the only ones in the field and future critics will have to choose either your hermetical-alchemical-cabbalistic insight or my Christological-Miltonic vision -unless perchance, as a hint of mine in the long Introduction to my study has it, Blake may be considered to have made in ...
... Zola with its insistence on crude raw life but the utilitarian habit of mipd of a Bentham. "Romanticism," he writes, "is withdrawal from outer experience to concentrate on inner experience", as in Blake or Shelley or "Cubist painting". But Lucas points out how it was Classicism which raised a clamour against outer experience if it happened to be of a Page 1 familiar kind. The Classicists... be ruled, like the Classic, by a social ideal of conduct - partly social, at least, in its heroism and generosity, though in other ways rebelliously anti-social. But, essentially, he believes with Blake in letting his impulses and ideas run free.... If I had to hazard an Aristotelian definition of Romanticism, it might run - 'Romantic literature is a dream-picture of life; providing sustenance and... associates Romanticism above all with "the grotesque". Christianity, with its sense of Sin, is said to have brought melancholy into the world by making man realise the paradox of his imperfect nature: as William Watson puts it - Magnificent out of the dust we came, And abject from the spheres. With the melancholy sense of that paradox grew up the sense of the grotesque and hence the habit of mingling ...
... earlier spirituality in a perfect Beyond where after terrestrial life we have to go. You, Tagore, William Blake one and all are of this supra-terrestrial outlook, no matter how much you may value sparrows and 'the eye of the peacock" and "our humble mother the dust" in the Creation which according to you and Blake was found good and was never sought to be made better by a God whose substance is ever different... here and even whose supposed incarnation is limited to a single instance in the whole of earth's history, a uniqueness which you yourself consider "indeed absurd" (as I am sure Tagore also, though not Blake, did). This rather incoherent blend of Christianity and non-Christianity, which is further complicated by a mixture Page 125 with it of the Hermetic-Alchemical-Cabbalistic tradition... alone a spiritual order which the soul itself discerns. You have with great understanding seen, Mallarme's atheism notwithstanding, the actual perception Page 129 of the universe of Blake's Imagination was possessed by him. I can see that a school of poetry in India might well look for its predecessors in the West among the symbolists, rather than among the Anglo-American reductionists ...
... the symbolism of hair, etc. I presumably represent for you some Page 173 aspect of the Poetic Muse and also your interest in English (and French?) poetry, not surely to forget William Blake who was our first and remains an enduring link. So I would read your dream as suggesting that the Muse is well disposed to your work and that I had the honour, in one dream, of being the mask... when it goes to India. As to ananda my own life is a write-off (not perhaps my work) but those like myself must be content to know that Paradise is there, and that there are happy souls like William Blake who are 'inhabitants of that happy country'. The lost also bear witness to the sorrow of that loss. (2.3.1988) From K. D. Sethna Your letter of March 2nd is perhaps the most beautiful... element as representing something more general. You write: "I presumably represent for you some aspect of the Poetic Muse and also your interest in English (and French?) poetry, not surely to forget William Blake who was our first and remains an enduring link. So I would read your dream as suggesting that the Muse is well-disposed to your work and that I had Page 181 the honour, in one ...
... high as on that fateful night in the Paris Theatre, and pretty deep cuts were made by the vigorous play of polemical pens. The central figure in the Romantic Movement in England was William Wordsworth, though Burns and Blake may be consi-dered the pioneers in a general sense. You might think Words-worth was rather a contrast to Hugo. We have been accustomed to picture him as a sedate and philosophic solitary ...
... the person who should have been there instead. But nobody else arrived and in the meantime we discovered a whole range of mutual interests: Sri Aurobindo of course, but also Teilhard de Chardin, William Blake, Mallarme and the French symbolist poets, the sonnets of Alfred Douglas, the strange historical/visionary perspectives of Immanuel Velikovsky - the list seemed endless, while Amal's enthusiasm and... ordinary readers can't understand the lines - they are not meant for understanding but for "overstanding". Some-thing of what Housman calls "pure poetry" is here. He would have thought at once of Blake's "hear the voice of the bard..." Rather irrelevantly perhaps and yet with a happy thrill I remember the closing line of Hecker's "Song of the Arab Horsemen": Pale Kings of the sunset, beware! (4 ...
... the thick sound of sh . It is difficult to align this poem with any particular trend in English verse. The general stuff of atmosphere and rhythm has affinities with stray passages in Blake, but Blake has a more nocturnal touch, so to speak — he gives us mystery rather than revelation. Yeats's twilight, with its fairy and mythic hues, is also close to the tone here, but a more genuinely spiritual... idea by a last stroke of concrete colour. A vision analogous in breadth and vivid cumulativeness of meaning to this grand finale, though by a puissant rather than a rhapsodical utterance, is William Watson's symboli-sation of the factor of disharmony in the world by the figure of the raven: he suggests the strange shadow whose raucous intrusion and weird touch are felt everywhere. Here is his... earn a surrender of all-transmuting bliss. Suffering is a sacred privilege to him: he is pushed by it not to blaspheme or even doubt, but nearer and nearer the goal he seeks. Though, like William Watson in the "Crow"-stanza, he can be puzzled by the spectre of discord haunting the world-ditty, he utilises the invasion of his being by it to raise to yet intenser a pitch his aspiration towards ...
... with Milton when he says that the Muse visits his slumbers & awakes & governs his soul when Morn purples the East..." (Letter, 16 August 1799, p. 1038 of G. Keynes, The Complete Writings of William Blake, London, 1957). 35 . The Crowning Privilege (Pelican, Harmondsworth, 1959), pp. 338-9. 36 . Ibid., p. 99. 37 . A Milton Handbook, p. 3. 38 .Bk. II, 752-59.... All that has been said amounts to nothing further than what David Masson affirms: "There can be little doubt that Milton believed himself to be, in some real sense, an inspired man." Apart from Blake, 34 only Robert Graves has referred to the general aspect with a direct pointer, but he too does so just en passant. 35 He comes to it in trying to clinch his contention that Milton was really ...
... when he had flouted their conventional religious notions about God. They exclaimed: "This fellow was bad enough when he criticised Jehovah and his thunder Page 380 and brimstone, but Blake and others had done similar things and in any case we can't exactly say that God is an Englishman. Nobody has uttered a cross word about Old Shakespeare, our English Shakespeare. This Irish heretic... authorship put in the form of ciphers. One cryptogram proved this authorship perfectly — except that by ill luck it did so in nineteenth-century English! Recently a book by two professional cryptologists, William and Elizabeth Friedman, Page 390 went into a thorough examination of all the claimed ciphers and cryptograms and proved them spurious. Reading the reviews of this book I wondered if ...
... must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes Page 287 God the Geometer, by William Blake (1757-1827) Page 288 and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve ...
... Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo; 9. Blake’s Tyger: A Christological Interpretation; 10. Indian Poets and English Poetry; 11. The Beginning of History for Israel; 12. “Overhead Poetry”; 13. KarpasaIt in Prehistoric India; and a host of others. It becomes a little difficult to believe that books as disparate in nature as The Beginning of History for Israel, Blake’s Tyger and Karpasa in Prehistoric... last fracture. Perhaps my words now will set some of the broken pieces together. “Mallarme’s is a mysticism of a very mystifying kind. Before him there had been mystical poetry, but except for Blake it had not the quality of mystification which this Frenchman brought into play… “English lends itself far more easily to the ambiguous, so that English Mysticism often seems to deserve being spelt... ‘Clarity first, clarity again, clarity at the end.’ “The English genius differs here from the French, perhaps because England has more mist and fog than other side of the Channel. The English poet William Watson has said: ‘They see not the cleariest,/Who see all things clear.’ And Havelock Ellis, looking at Anatole France’s advice, has added his own comment of both agreement and disagreement: ‘Be clear ...
... and mighty chest and soft soundless paws of grandeur and murder. What poet in Mr. Lal's anthology has anything to match this sight and insight? We should have to go to the pregnant details of Blake's "fearful symmetry" "burning bright" or to Rilke's painting of the tiger with a few vital brush-strokes: Der weiche Gang gesschmeidig starker Schritte. (Velvety softness wedding to striding... humour blended with imaginative empathy in Sri Aurobindo's approach to the common cat, it too stands unrivalled by the anthology's other entries. Mr. Lal himself comes nearest to it in one line on Blake's and Rilke's and Sri Aurobindo's beast of prey— The tiger licking his five-haired snout— but how far he is from the fun no less than the fineness of the couplet: Page 443 ... from Spenser downwards and which has nothing unpoetic about it except that twentieth-century poets do not frequendy employ it should be criticised at just the place where it is most appropriate. When William Watson spoke of a time Pendulous 'twixt the gold hour and the grey he was certainly not propping himself in amateur versification: the word is subtly expressive of brief delicate suspension ...
... word-body into which she puts them brought out their beauty in full. An example may be found even outside her booklet — in a poem I received for publication, called The Sun's Quiet Side: Blake's Moon "with delight Sits and smiles on the night": I've known that Moon — but smiling on a day. It was in me, And round our hub, gyrating Possibility: Wind smoking along grasses... colouring shows a touch of the minutely marking as well as luxurious painter eye of the young Tennyson, and not infrequently the phrasing bears an aspect of traditional poeticism from Spenser down to William Watson, which especially the rebellious modernist ear may dub wearying. In a semi-modernist manner we get at a few moments an affinity to Gerard Manley Hopkins. But if we look deeper and hear more ...
... 7. Ibid., Vol. 17, pp. 399-400 8. Aldous Huxley, Text and Pretext (Phoenix edn.), p. 75 9. Elizabeth Barren Browning 10. Gerald Manley Hopkins 11. William Blake 12. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 1 13. Keats' Ode to a Nightingale 14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, pp. 10,24 15. Ibid., Vol. 17, p. 133 16. Ibid., Vol... 62. Ibid., p. 623 63. Ibid., p. 632, 635 64. Ibid., p. 636 65. Ibid., p. 654 Chapter 21: Global Comprehension 1. India and the Future by William Archer (1917). It is about 300 pages in bulk and carries 36 illustrations. 2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, pp. 44, 45 3. Ibid., p. 2 Page 802 ...
... days for her, and wearing for everybody that took part; but her share was the hardest, for she had no holidays, but must be always on hand and stay the Page 33 Joan of Arc by William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) Page 34 long hours through, whereas this, that, and the other inquisitor could absent himself and rest up from his fatigues when he got worn out. And yet she showed... sentences as fluently as if this sort of work had been her trade from childhood: Page 53 JESUS MARIA 'King of England, and you Duke of Bedford who call yourself Regent of France; William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk; and you Thomas Lord Scales, who style yourselves lieutenants of the said Bedford— do right to the King of Heaven. Render to the Maid who is sent by God the keys of all... compassionate tears, although one of those perishing men had grossly insulted her with a coarse name three days before, when she had sent him a message asking him to surrender. That was their leader, Sir William Glasdale, a most valorous knight. He was clothed all in steel; so he plunged under the water like a lance, and of course came up no more. We soon patched a sort of bridge together and threw ourselves ...
... of the Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse in the New Statesman . It might be noted as worth getting when you have the money—unless you have already something of the kind. Have you Donne and Blake in the Library?—not that I want them just now, but I shall some day when I revise The Future Poetry . January 1934 The Mother I sent you a review of The Mother a few days ago. Have you seen... soon as possible; they will receive my first attention. The Defence of Indian Culture is an unfinished book and also I had intended to alter much of it and to omit all but brief references to William Archer's criticisms. That was why its publication has been so long delayed. Even if it is reprinted as it is, considerable alterations will have to be made and there must be some completion and an ...
... SURPRISES—Joan E. Cass 53.THAT INATTENTIVE BOY 54.ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE—A Greek Legend 55.MY BROTHER, MY BROTHER—Norah Burke 56.THE LAST LEAF—O. Henry 57.THE LITTLE BLACK BOY—William Blake 58.NO TIME FOR FEAR—Philip Yancey 59.MY STRUGGLE FOR AN EDUCATION—Booker T. Washington 60.THE POSTMASTER—Rabindra Nath Tagore STORIES FROM THE WEST 1.THE GHOST OF ...
... is deficient. It is like a very realistic optical illusion, as realistic as the broken appearance of a stick dipped in water, and just as erroneous. We must "cleanse the doors of perception," as William Blake said, and Nirvana helps us to do just that, albeit a bit radically. Usually, we see a three-dimensional world with a multitude of objects and beings separated from one another, the way the two ...
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