Corneille : Pierre (1606-84), called Father of French classical tragedy.
... are not the same. The works of Milton and Page 48 Pope, of Corneille and Delille, are not classics of the same type. For us Pope and Delille do not appear as true classics, at the best they are perhaps classical. Pope and Delille followed the same technique that had been introduced by Milton and Corneille in the literary art, but they went to an excess. .We shall deal with the drawback... World-Literature (I) ‘REAL poetry, the acme of poetical art,’ says Victor Hugo, ‘is characterised by immensity alone.’ That is why Aeschylus, Lucretius, Shakespeare and Corneille had conquered his heart. Had he been acquainted with Sanskrit literature he would have included Valmiki and the Vedic seers. As a matter of fact, what we want to derive from poetry or any other artistic... in France Malherbe had to appear on the scene after Ronsard. It was Malherbe who was the father of classical French literature, and it is he who paved the way for that prince of classics, Pierre Corneille. The natural march of literature towards the classical style shows also the very raison d'être of literature. The literary genius of a particular nation does not seem to attain its full strength ...
... I should thank my stars that I got only a verbal kick. But even otherwise I could console my ame insensible with the thought that Sri Aurobindo is on my side and rates Corneille above Racine, and Hugo above Corneille, but keeps even Hugo out of the sheer first class. In ranking Hugo as tops in French poetry but not tops enough in world-poetry, Sri Aurobindo is supported by one of the acutest... Dido — but most of the other characters are a little wooden. Among those who have just missed entering the third row are the Roman Lucretius, the Greek Euripides, the Spanish Calderon, the French Corneille and Hugo, the English Spenser. While mentioning the various names I noticed one of you trying to anticipate the roll by whispering "Wordsworth". Well, Sri Aurobindo has said that Wordsworth, Shelley ...
... and riot of full-blooded action. Seen from another angle, it is a fresh rendering of the Perseus-Andromeda myth, linking Sri Aurobindo with other interpreters of the myth like Euripides and Ovid, Corneille and Kingsley. Unlike Kingsley, whose Andromeda is but "romantic tinsel", Sri Aurobindo has retained all the old beauty and poetry and sense of mystery of the Hellenic myth, but has served it all... Bassora - it is like turning from the storm-tossed ocean ruled by Poseidon to the Palace of Marvels in Haroun al Rasheed's Garden of Delight. And the source is not Hellenic myth or Euripides or Corneille but the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Sri Aurobindo won the book as a school prize in England, and seems to have loved it. The Viziers is principally based on The Tale of the Beautiful Swe... Antiochus Grupus. Justin, another historian, mentions a Queen who is required to choose one of her sons to succeed her late husband. Out of these and other references and hints, the French dramatist, Corneille, wrote his famous tragedy, Rodogune. The two princes, the twins Antiochus and Seleucus, who have been brought up abroad at Cleopatra's brother's place, return to Syria expecting that one of them ...
... sovereignty peculiar to Graeco-Roman Classicism. However, the poetic achievement of French Classicism is admirable enough and its two motives at their best "give us, in Corneille, "a strong nobility of character", 37 a pulsing and powerful rhetoric and, in Racine, "a fine grace of poetic sentiment", 38 a clear controlled poignancy... move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and inshadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Corneille is stately in his penetrating practicality: Page 31 A vaincre sans peril, on triomphe sans gloire - ... Fall'n Cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering - or brief-cut as in Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. Corneille provides many an occasion of dignified force, like Rome n'est plus dans Rome, elle est toute ou je suis - Rome is no more in Rome, it ...
... But it must be rather exceptional. 24 September 1936 I am starting to study the history of literature. I have found that I can't understand Corneille at all—I mean that I don't understand old French. Corneille is not old French, Corneille is classical French. It is absolutely necessary to study classical French if one wants to stand a chance of speaking French correctly. You definitely ...
... race – they are proud to be called republican, so it is by the combined effort of many, the contribution of more than one genius, that their language and literature have been formed and enriched. Corneille, Racine, Molière, La Fontaine (or up the stream to Rabelais) – they are a goodly company; among these whom to exclude and whom to include? And yet here too, perhaps only one can be taken as France's... French and reflects the heart of the French people. What is that characteristic? In one word, the culmination of elegance and sensitiveness. To be sure, this is not the only aspect of the French. Corneille has contributed to another aspect – severity, virility, high seriousness, austere self-control, strictness and bareness. But this may be considered a special quality of a branch line, as it were,... Here too an aspect of supreme elegance is found. Bengali, like French, has a natural ease of flow. Madhusudan took up another line and sought to bring in an austere and masculine element - à la Corneille. Some among the modern writers are endeavouring to revive that line and naturalise it; even then the soft elegance, the lyric grace so natural to the language has attained almost its acme in Tagore ...
... — and these were presumed to be the ideals of all reasonable men of all ages. Pierre Corneille (1606-84) was the father of French classical tragedy. In 1636 he had written Le Page 210 Cid, the first of his powerful dramas that glorified will power and the striving for perfection. Corneille was still writing when Louis XIV began his personal reign, but he was soon eclipsed by. his... came when his company, having established a precarious foothold in Paris, Page 212 secured an invitation to perform before the young King, Louis XIV. The play chosen was a tragedy of Corneille, but it was followed by Moliere's short farce, now lost, Le Docteur amoureux. The- King was amused and the way to patronage and success was opened. The company had already come under the protection ...
... × Has Mother confused Clouet with Corneille de Lyon? Because it seems there is no Clouet at Blois, but there is a portrait of Madeleine of Scotland, daughter of François I, painted by Corneille de Lyon. Unless Mother confused Blois with another town and another château? ...
... ourselves literally to its classification of the three artists concerned or to its ascription to them of the qualities defined. The Classicism of the Graeco-Roman poets as well as of Dante and Milton, Corneille and Racine, is the art Ellis attributes to Ristori. The Elizabethans - in one mode Marlowe Page 183 and his fellow-dramatists, in the other Spenser and, in both, Shakespeare - practise ...
... will live their time on the stage and in the library; they are not, by themselves, sufficient for great dramatic creation. Something else is needed for that, which we get in Shakespeare, in Racine, Corneille and Molière, in Calderón, in the great Greeks, in the leading Sanskrit dramatists; but these other Elizabethans show themselves in the bulk of their work to be rather powerful writers and playwrights ...
... stream, though it may indulge the rhetorical turn too consistently to achieve utterly the highest heights of speech, yet it 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 ...
... poet's while, taken in a mass, one can't justify the comparison? SRI AUROBINDO: I didn't speak about mass. Villon is considered a great poet in France and certainly he is the greatest that preceded Corneille and Racine. NIRODBARAN: But I thought you said that his poems taken singly are as great as those of any other poet. SRI AUROBINDO: I didn't put it in that way, but that is the impression he ...
... Churchill, Winston, 91, Ill, 128 Coleridge, 194 Commonwealth, 91, 106, 236 Communism, 25, 27-8, 125-6 Confucius, 222 Copernicus, 308 Cordelia, 185n Corneille, 197 Crete, 214 Cyrus, 240 Czechoslovakia, 100 DANTE, 39, 79, 197 . - Divina Commedia, 39 Darshallas, the, 344 Das, Prof. A. C., 336-9 ...
... . -Dante Et je devins poète en étant amoureux . . . -Corneille Page 114 Mater Dolorosa I Je songe aux belles nuits, aux rêves diaphanes Où j'ai vécu jadis; je ...
... bord où vous fûtes laissée? (Ariane, my sister, what love it was that struck you and left you dying on the shores of the sea?) Or, listen to the majestic tones of a poet of equal power, Corneille: Je suis jeune, il est vrai ; aux ames bien-neés La valeur n'attend point le nombre des années. (I am young; it is true; but the valour of hero-souls counts little the number of ...
... Mother that I understood how words combined with music and rhythm in order to bring out the actual meaning of the poem. In this French class, the Mother read out from works of Molière, Racine, Corneille, Anatole France. She enjoyed reading Révolte des Anges by Anatole France and Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. She also read Andromaque , Le Cid , Les Femmes Savantes and other such works ...
... history of Cleopatra, Queen of Syria, as recounted by such classical historians as Appian, Justin and Josephus. The immediate source probably was Rodogune (1645), by the French dramatist Pierre Corneille. Perseus the Deliverer. Sri Aurobindo wrote this play during the period of his political activity, and its publication history is marked by the uncertainties of that era. A notation from the ...
... of jostling opinions. I am not prepared to classify all the poets in the universe—it was the front bench or benches you asked for. By others I meant poets like Lucretius, Euripides, Calderon, Corneille, Hugo. Euripides ( Medea, Bacchae and other plays) is a greater poet than Racine whom you want to put in the first ranks. If you want only the very greatest, none of these can enter—only Vyasa and ...
... the one side he was the King of the Romanticists — introducing the titanic and the grandiose and the mysterious into the French poetic imagina-tion. Up to his time, except for certain tendencies in Corneille, the balanced and the beautiful and the bright were the Gods of poetry. Hugo poured the limit-breaking imperious ocean, thrust up the rugged and monstrous mountain, pushed the savage and shadow-haunted ...
... just as no poetry can exist without the wings of the imagination in the word. Both may be controlled, both may be let loose - but they must be present. In the Greeks and Romans, in Dante and Milton, Corneille and Racine, they are controlled, though often very intense - and the controlling actually adds at times to the effect of the intensity. In the Elizabethan Romantics they are mostly let loose, though ...
... as no poetry can exist without the wings of the imagination in the word. Both may be controlled, both may be let loose - but they must be present. In the Greeks and Ro- mans, in Dante and Milton, Corneille and Racine, they are controlled, though often very intense - and the controlling actually adds at times to the effect of the intensity. In the Elizabethan Romantics they are mostly let loose, though ...
... Chakrabarty, Nirendralal, 173-4 Chakrabarty, Parimal, 169 Chatila, 258 Chattopadhyaya, Ramakrishnaprasad, 170 Chinmoy, 193 Christ, 7 Collyrium, 188 Corneille, 1I4 DAMANAKA, 77 Dante, 114 Darika, 279 Das, Jagadish Chandra, 182-3 Dasharatha, 56 Devi, Aruna, 194-5 Devi, Sahana, 185-7 Devi, Vma, 181 ...
... style will be of prose, i.e., its measure and rhythm will be of poetry, but the tone will Page 134 be of prose. The French Alexandrine; the high order of twelve-line poetry of Corneille and Racine – if it is read as poetry should be, it would sound totally dry and monotonous, but if despite pause and rhyme, it is read like prose, it would reveal its beauty. Because the noted actress ...
... one single Name can be pointed out as the life and soul, the very cream of the characteristic poetic genius of the nation. I am, of course, referring to Racine, Racine who, in spite of Moliere and Corneille and Hugo, stands as the most representative French poet, the embodiment of French resthesis par excellence. Such a great name is Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali literature. We need not forget ...
... Even in the same field of work each great artist leaves his own stamp on his work. For example, take the Greek dramatist Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus or the French trio. Voltaire, Racine, Corneille —you will find the distinguishing stamp of each on his work. A soul expressing the eternal spirit of Truth and Beauty through some of the infinite variations of beauty, with the word for its ...
... more or less uniform, in given situations, at least its effect is uniformly spaced. Time, decay, old age and death are real for all living beings, however varied be the response to them. Consider Corneille's famous observation: "Every moment of life is a step towards death." The decay of the living body and the instability of the world, its pleasures and pains alike have time and again been ...
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