Campbell : Thomas (1777-1844), English poet, best known for sentimental & martial lyrics.
... the mixed tunnels of whose angry brain Creeps the slow scolopendra of the Train! —Roy Campbell Have you seen the "Golden Cowboy and Others" in the New Statesman ? Gives a good idea of modernist poetry, I think. Frost is a rather elaborate frost. Plomer is a "terrible" contortionist, but Roy Campbell is really amusing—I like his "slow scolopendra" immensely. He has at least the courage of... much that is so freakish and uncertain as to take away half the value of what is attempted. Here the writer has something to say and knows how to say it. 1934 Robert Frost, William Plomer, Roy Campbell Something inspires the only cow of late To make no more of a wall than an open gate, And think no more of wall-builders than fools. Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools A cider ...
... Example: There is a heroic poem by Thomas Campbell on the battle of Hohenlinden (A.D. 1800), which caught the attention of the English world of that day and which began: On Linden when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. Page 47 Now Campbell took his poem on the battle of Hohenlinden... n to a publisher. After handing the piece to the publisher, Campbell whose head was still humming with poetry stepped out to the stairs but missed his footing and fell with a great deal of clatter down the stairway. The publisher, hearing the noise, put his head out of his door at the top of the landing and asked: "What's happening?" To which the falling poet shouted back in the midst of his tumble: ...
... times at the most odd moments. Don't you know what Campbell once did? He took his poem on the Battle of Hohenlinden to a publisher. Its first stanza runs: On Linden when the sun was low All bloodless lay the untrodden snow And dark as Winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. After handing the piece to the publisher, Campbell whose head was still humming with poetry stepped... stepped out to the stairs but missed his footing and went tumbling down. The publisher rushed to the landing and asked: "What's happening?" Campbell shouted back in the midst of his tumble: "I, sir, rolling rapidly." The line so wittily used by Campbell is not a piece of marked Poetic Diction. But it is a well-turned thing. And even very good lines can be written without Poetic Diction and with words ...
... under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo with Speeches Delivered during the Same Period 6.Feb-3.May.1908 Bande Mataram Campbell-Bannerman Retires 10-April-1908 The resignation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman leaves things for India just where they were, but it is of some importance for Page 1026 England, as it is not unlikely that the transference ...
... Page 304 prosecution and barbarous sentences continued with mounting ferocity. The arrest and trial of the saintly Brahmabandhab Upadhyaya and his death while in detention at the Campbell Hospital had sent out a wave of resentment all over Bengal, all over India. "His declaration in Court and his death," wrote Sri Aurobindo, "put a seal upon the meaning of his life and left his... was then that Chittaranjan Das - the "Deshabandhu " of a later day - agreed to appear for Sri Aurobindo. It is said that the spirit of Brahmabandhab Upadhyaya, who had died during captivity in the Campbell Hospital, appeared in a dream to Das and told him that he should take up the defence of Sri Aurobindo. Das's mother too seems to have asked him not to hesitate, for his duty lay in taking up the ...
... who cannot Page 134 be classed, Smart & Beattie. Last come the first nineteenth century poets, who published their earliest work in 1798-1800, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Landor & Campbell. School of Natural Description The first to break away from Pope were Thomson & Dyer. The original departures made by their school were as follows. (1) In subject-matter an almost exclusive ...
... Lord Byron has said, why should an Indian journalist be charged with an attempt to incite to violence when he asks his countrymen of East Bengal to defend the honour of their women at any cost? If Campbell is right in saying that virtue is the spouse of liberty, why should an Indian be exposed to the menace of siege-guns when entering on a legitimate and lawful struggle for the recovery of his lost ...
... longer,—not hysterically, but rationally and strongly,—making it clear that she will not accept the present Partition. I believe redress is at hand." Later on the writer, after quoting Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman's reply to Mr. O'Donnell, modified his previous advice regarding public meeting and said—"On second thought a simple memorial seems to be enough if influentially signed—a meeting is unnecessary ...
... they are forced to and no other way is left. Otherwise they don't act. SRI AUROBINDO: If they want to act, they can do so provided they have the right man. For instance after the Boer War, Sir Campbell Bannerman gave self-government to South Africa. Self-government has also been granted to Iraq and to Egypt. In Egypt they have kept control of the Suez only. That is the advantage of England over ...
... their hands. None thought of rendering any active help. Just at that time, an Englishman was driving by. He noticed the boy, lying unconscious, picked him up in his car, and took him straight to the Campbell Medical College for first aid. Relating the accident, Sri Aurobindo compared the character of the Indians with that of the Europeans and observed that it was their devotion to duty which had made ...
... the President Convention and Conference The Constitution of the Subjects Committee The Asiatic Role The Work Before Us Campbell-Bannerman Retires The Demand of the Mother 13.04.08 14.04.08 22.04.08 23.04.08 ...
... worst way in all poetic history. The correct description of the way is found in the very line, which reads: In a most hideous and dreadful manner. When Bernard Shaw once heard Mrs Patrick Campbell say this line he could not believe Shakespeare could have perpetrated anything so bad. He accused her of having improvised it to cover up a lapse of memory. Shakespeare is not such a terrible flop ...
... phanopoeic path is not as full of banana-skins as that of the logopoeic. It is possible even to write effective Phanopoeia with a banana as part of the vision! There is a line by somebody — perhaps Roy Campbell: Buccaneer the world to bring home a banana. This is a vigorous poetic substitute for the well-known Latin phrase: "Montes parturiunt et nascetur ridiculus mus" — "Mountains are in travail ...
... has its disadvantages too. Sometimes the combined simplicity and splendour that are natural to Greek and Latin, even when they are talking of the commonest things, is difficult in English. Professor Campbell has somewhere drawn our attention to Homer's phrase about the dog Argos which, old and uncared for, is lying at the doorstep when Ulysses returns home after his long wanderings. Homer says of the ...
... freakishness, yet object to any transcendence of the conversational turn and temper. The latter is no defect in itself; what the poet has to be on guard against is the bathetic or the prosaic. Professor Campbell has observed that Homer could speak of Ulysses' dog Argos as being full of lice without sacrificing all that Arnold claimed for him — rapidity, simplicity, nobility — because the phrase in Greek ...
... Eighteen pages will be a job for me in my present circumstances, but your description of the well- oiled limousine is promising and gives me hope I shall be able to go through like another Sir Malcolm Campbell at two hundred miles an hour. December 5,1936 You can send the letter, but I don't know how far Sotuda will relish the suggestion. He is a rich and successful man spending largely ...
... Poems", Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, volume 5. Pondicherry: 1972 Sri Aurobindo, "The Philosophy of the Upanishads". Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research, volume 8, December 1984. Campbell, Joseph. The Masks of God. Penguins Books Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization: Part II, The Life of Greece. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966 Eliade, Mircea. A History of Religions ...
... the hundred-petalled lotus in full bloom in India's Manasarovar - was arrested as the editor of Sandhya on 31 August, but he was to trick the authorities and die, after a ort illness, in the Campbell Hospital before the case against him could be concluded. Who, then, was most likely to throw light on the still obscure editor of the Bande Mataram? Bepin Pal, of course - the founder of the ...
... us and whose interest is, and must necessarily be, in the way of our National development." He also boasted, "No foreign government can imprison me." True to his word he died on 27 October 1907 at Campbell Medical Hospital while the Sandhya Page 357 same monotonous investigation and after a laborious search Lahiri afterwards stepped out of the room and paced the corridor heroically ...
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