Comus : a poetic masque by Milton; Comus a Greek god of mirth, depicted as a winged youth bearing a torch & a drinking cup.
... Christ's Nativity, 156. 13 . Ibid., 171-2. 14 .Bk. I, 195-6. 15 .Bk. IV, 986-7. 16 . At a Solemn Music, 19-24. 17 . Comus, 4-9. 18 . Ibid., 383-5. 19 .Bk. IV, 75-8. 20 . Comus, 208. 21 . Ibid, 730. 22 . On the Lord General Fairfax, at the Siege of Colchester, 4. 23 . English Poetry (1952), p. 73. 24... fair music that all creatures made To their great Lord, whose love all motion swayed In perfect diapason whilst they stood In first obedience and their state of good. 16 In Comus, four years later, the Miltonic soul that we soar with so often in the epic is fitly sounded: In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which... way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. 19 Apropos of Comus we may remark that in this "Masque", more than ever before, Milton shows himself the master of rhythm no less than word. The instinct of the inevitable sound reinforcing the precise verbal suggestion ...
... his old age produced also Comus in his twenty-seventh year: the styles of the two are not precisely the same. Indeed Paradise Lost is one of the world's greatest poetic achievements, yet Comus has a flexibility and a richness that are often missing in the huge high thunders of the epic chant. What, however, Sri Aurobindo wrote at the same age as Milton wrote Comus —namely, Love and Death, ... in blank verse—holds in its short span of about a thousand lines a snatch of the power and amplitude found in the colossus of Milton's old age and also a delicate plastic splendour reminiscent of Comus. The fusion of the early Milton with the late : this may be taken in general to characterise at its best the blank verse of Sri Aurobindo's twenties. But, while some actual influence from Page ...
... belongs to darkness and it is darkness that is caressed into smiling. A queer yet fascinating secret presence is conjured up and the music which is the theme becomes too a live thing. Nor does Milton's Comus stop with them. He goes on to compare the ravishing effect with what super-natural creatures like his mother "Circe with the Sirens three" used to produce in "prisoned souls", lapping them in Elysium:... now. 21 In lines 3 and 4 here we have an extremely apt pointer to a state of being which a mystic who has made God a constant glow and intensity in his heart might well speak of. No doubt, Comus is far from any sainthood: still, the words show the simple yet subtle precision of a verbal artistry which may prove adequate to profound spiritual purposes. Finally, we may instance those famous... 535-46. 12 . Op. cit., p. 111. 13 . Ibid., p. 92. 14 .Bk. I, 604-15. 15 . On Time, 11-12. 16 .Il penseroso, 39-40. 17 . Ibid., 73-6. 18 . Comus, 205-9. 19 . Ibid., 250-3. 20 . Ibid., 260-4. 21 . Ibid., 536. 22 .Lycidas, 128-9. 23 . Ibid., 130-1. 24 .Bk. III, 488-9. 25 .Bk. II, 666-73 ...
... version we have this kind of proliferation. Sri Aurobindo justified it in a letter to me answering some criticisms by a friend of mine who had a penchant for compositions like Milton's Lycidas or Comus and who reacted unfavourably to the gradual detailed Page 326 unfoldment of the theme in the very first canto. Sri Aurobindo explained the reason for such an unfoldment as well... the Times Literary Supplement's criticism of The Life Divine - in every part, in every passage, in almost every canto or section of a canto. It has been planned not on the scale of Lycidas or Comus or some brief narrative poem, but of the longer epical narrative, almost a minor, though a very minor Ramayana; it aims not at a minimum but at an exhaustive exposition of its world-vision or wo ...
... Cambridge. The manuscript bears dates ranging between October and December 1891. The source of the plot of The Witch of Ilni is not known, but the play evidently owes much to Milton's Comus and similar works. The House of Brut. Sri Aurobindo wrote this fragment during the early part of his stay in Baroda, probably in 1899. The idea for The House of Brut seems to ...
... description in his otherwise eulogistic criticism of The Life Divine —in every part, in every passage, in almost every canto or section of a canto. It has been planned not on the scale of Lycidas or Comus or some brief narrative poem, but of the longer epical narrative, almost a minor, though a very minor Ramayana ; it aims not at a minimum but at an exhaustive exposition of its world-vision or wo ...
... was mainly responsible for the establishment of an authentically intellectualised speech in English poetry: Milton. Particularly in the early Milton of the Nativity Hymn, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus and Lycidas we have a richness and Page 88 flexibility and supple penetrativeness which are almost lost in the later Milton's grandiose epic chant: Oft, on a plat of rising ...
... in his otherwise eulogistic criticism of The Life Divine — in every part, in every passage, in almost every canto or section of a canto. It has been planned not on the scale of Lycidas or Comus or some brief narrative poem, but of the longer epical narrative, almost a minor, though a very minor Ramayana; it aims not at a minimum but at an exhaustive exposition of its world-vision or w ...
... psychological diversity in which they were one intermixed element, and aggrandising it at their expense. The conventions of controversy in those days permitted harsh language, but Milton the poet of Comus and Lycidas could not plunge into the m ê l é e of vituperation without doing something that went against his poetic grain. Not that the poet in him ran contrary to the temper of a Juvenal: savage ...
... sun;... 32 Why must Savitri harp upon love! Is it any more than the flesh hungering, the nerves burning, the mind dreaming, the heart fluttering? With casuistry worthy of Milton's Belial or Comus, Death tries to wear down Savitri's wall of resistance to the invasion of falsehood. Ah yes, love's momentary thrill seems "a golden bridge across the roar of the years"; but, alas! spent soon, all ...
... Letter to Joseph Baptista, dated 5 January 1920. See Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 430. (Also in Purani, The Life, p. 168) 11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 654 12. Milton, Comus, II. 73-5 13. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 107 14. Ibid. 15. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 658 16. From C. C. Dutt's Puranokatha — Upasanhara (Bengali), ...
... clear from the following quotation taken from a letter in reply to certain criticism of Savitri. He speaks about the plan of Savitri: It has been planned not on the scale of Lycidas or Comus or some brief narrative poem, but of the larger epical narrative, almost a minor, though a very minor Ramayana; it aims not at the minimum but at an exhaustive exposition of its world-vision or ...
... We have already quoted lines that were markedly musical — melopoeic lines. Long passages, even whole poems, can be melo-poeic — for example, the song which Milton has put into his Masque called Comus. I have selected this song because it has nothing momentous to say, no great theme is here, no high thought or sentiment is turned into verse-music: a mere picture with some feeling behind it is presented ...
... driven by the inspiration and impulsion of a genuine artist. Now, what is Art? Please do not be perturbed by the question. I am not trying to enter into the philosophy-the metaphysics ¹ Comus, I, 477-8. Page 245 of it, but only into the science - the physics - of it. Whatever else it may be, the sine qua non, the minimum requisite of art is that it must be a thing of beauty ...
... the following quotation taken from a letter in reply to certain criticism of Sāvitrī . He speaks about the plan of Sāvitrī :— "It has been planned not on the scale of Lycidas or Comus or same brief narrative poem, but of the larger epical narrative, almost a minor, though a very minor R ā m ā yana; it aims not at the minimum but at an exhaustive exposition of its world-vision ...
... her p ā tivrata m ā h ā tmya, which may be explained as the 'glorious efficacy of wifely chastity'. The efficacy of virgin purity is the theme of many a story, for example Milton's Comus; but a wife's chastity and utter devotion to her husband (even when he doesn't deserve such devotion) are qualities apart and unique, and the Hindu has believed that they can work wonders, even arrest ...
... everywhere there is this length...in every part, in every passage, in almost every canto or section of a canto. Page 443 It has been planned not on the scale of Lycidas or Comus or some brief narrative poem, but of the longer epical narrative, almost a minor, though a very minor Ramayana; it aims not at a minimum but at an exhaustive exposition of its world-vision ...
... is not personal Mukti... but the liberation and transformation of the human being." (SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 411. See also Vol. 23, p. 503.) Page 187 rather, as with the followers of Comus, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, And boast themselves more comely than before. 12 Sri Aurobindo revolved these things in his mind and ...
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