Christ in Hades : narrative poem in blank verse by Stephen Phillips.
... through so considerable a length of English blank verse. Both Love and Death and Urvasie bear traces of the influence of Stephen Phillips's Christ in Hades and Marpessa. During his Cambridge days Sri Aurobindo had seen Christ in Hades in manuscript — a memorable and fecundating event. Marpessa got even more under his skin. Stephen Phillips is at present a forgotten name because he ...
... of Shelley and Coleridge. I cannot tell you much about it from that point of view; I did not draw consciously from any of the poets you mention except from Phillips. I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades before they were published and as I was just in the stage of formation then—at the age of 17—they made a powerful impression which lasted until it was worked out in Love and Death . I dare say ...
... reviewer in The Times Literary Supplement grants deep thought and technical excellence as the only merits of my uninspired poetry. It is otherwise with Stephen Phillips: I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades , the latter Page 348 in typescript, shortly before I left England and they aroused my admiration and made a considerable impression on me. I read recently a reference to Phillips as ...
... reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement grants deep thought and technical excellence as the only merits of my uninspired poetry. It is otherwise with Stephen Phillips: I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades, the latter in typescript, shortly before I left England and they aroused my admiration and made a considerable impression on me. I read recently a reference to Phillips as a forgotten poet ...
... Sri Aurobindo's early blank verse which assimilates several influences into a varied vigorous originality mingles Paradise Lost most with the chief immediate influence - Stephen Phillips's Christ in Hades and Marpessa - and the principal background influence - Kalidasa's Vicramorvasie. And this blank verse is of particular interest because of a certain question raised by Sri Aurobindo in connection ...
... connection came to a dead stop with my departure from England a quarter of a century ago; it had for its last events the discovery of Meredith as a poet, in his Modern Love , and the perusal of Christ in Hades ,—some years before its publication,—the latter an unforgettable date. I had long heard, standing aloof in giant ignorance, the great name of Yeats, but with no more than a fragmentary and mostly ...
... intense pleasure in some of Coleridge's poetry." Keats too, specially his Hyperion. Among the Victorian poets, Stephen Phillips made a considerable impression on him. "I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades, before they were published and as I was just in the stage of formation then — at the age of seventeen — they made a powerful impression which lasted until it was worked out in Love and Death ...
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