Cousins, James H. : (1873-1956), Irish poet, theosophist, social worker, & educationist & prolific writer, best known for his New Ways in English Literature. He & his wife settled in India in 1915 & were among the founders of Kala Kshetra, an institution of art & culture at Ādyār, Madras. He was also close associate of Mrs Annie Besant, & the literary sub-editor of her paper New India.
... Continent of Circe, The, 450 Conversations of the Dead, 338 Cornville, 134,140 Cotton, Sir Henry, 36-7, 204, 206 Cotton, James S., 31, 33,37, 38 Cousins, James H., 610ff Craegan, Superintendent, 308 Crew, Lord, 369-70 Cripps, Arthur, 32 Cripps, Sir Stafford, 706ff, 710, 754,782 Curzon, Lord, 202ff, 204ff, 224, 268, 294 ...
... Clough, Arthur Hugh 53 Cocteaujean 268 Collected Poems and Plays 39 Collins, Douglas C. 455 Cotton, James S. 8 Coulton, G.G. 412 Cousins, James H. 17 Coxe, Louis O. 398,408 Crane, Hart 390 Dante 33,102, 111, 330,333,334,371,372, 380,381,383-385,394,410-415,417- 419, 422,426,432,448,450 ...
... 116-18, 120, 122-4, 129, 240, 267 Christianity, 120, 125, 240, 244, 276 Coleridge, 84, 235 -Kubla Khan, 84 Commonwealth, 284, 290 Communism (Sovietic), 253 Confucius, 281 Cousins, James H., 52n -New Ways in English Literature, 52n DANDAKARANYA,276 Dante, 53, 60-1, 71, 85, 169, 176,219 -Inferno, 53, 60n., 149, 169n -Paradiso, 53, 71, 149 Danton ...
... THE FUTURE POETRY was first published serially in the monthly review Arya between December 1917 and July 1920 in thirty-two instalments. The starting-point for these chapters was a book by James H. Cousins, New Ways in English Literature (Ganesh & Co., Madras, preface dated November 1917). A copy of this book was sent to Sri Aurobindo shortly after its publication for review in the Arya . He... The sources of these quotations are given in a table in the reference volume. He seems to have quoted from the works of older poets largely from memory; for contemporary writers he relied mostly on Cousins' New Ways in English Literature . The editors have reproduced the quotations as they appear in the Arya except when a misprint obviously occurred. Page 400 On Quantitative ...
... rule of seclusion. Prominent Nationalist leaders like C.R. Das, the poet Tagore, the educationists James H. Cousins and C.R. Reddy, his former pupil K.M. Munshi, and several others met Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry and had fruitful discussions with him. After his interview, James H. Cousins noted: "I retain a flavour of gentleness and wisdom, breadth of thought and extent of experience that... himself, "felt no call for the I.C.S. and was seeking some way to escape from that bondage...he managed to get himself disqualified for riding without himself rejecting the Service." 12 A friend, James S. Cotton, now negotiated with the Maharaja of Baroda and secured for Sri Aurobindo a job at Rs 200 per month. This seemed to settle his future, and so he sailed by S.S.Carthage and arrived in India... ries, Sri Aurobindo lived in comparative seclusion after all the blaze of publicity in which he had spent the previous three or four years. "The lives of the saints", writes William James, "are a history of successive renunciations of complication, one form of contact with the outer life being dropped after another, to save the purity of the inner tone." 23 Schopenhauer adds that,"the ...
... Chandernagore, after being revised lightly by Sri Aurobindo. The publisher's note to this edition stated: "The subject matter of the book was written in a way of appreciation of Mr. James H. Cousins' book of the same name." Cousins' Renaissance in India , a series of articles on contemporary Indian art and other subjects, was published by Ganesh & Co., Madras, with a preface dated June 1918. New editions ...
... There has been recently some talk of a Renaissance in India. A number of illuminating essays with that general title and subject have been given to us by a poet and subtle critic and thinker, Mr. James H. Cousins, and others have touched suggestively various sides of the growing movement towards a new life and a new thought that may well seem to justify the description. This Renaissance, this new birth... there a sharp tearing and snapping; but freedom of movement has not yet been attained. The eyes are not yet clear, the bud of the soul has only partly opened. The Titaness has not yet arisen. Mr. Cousins puts the question in his book whether the word renaissance at all applies since India has always been awake and stood in no need of reawakening. There is a certain truth behind that and to one coming... the Western contact in which it seemed for a moment likely to perish by slow decomposition, and the ascending movement which first broke into some clarity of expression only a decade or two ago. Mr. Cousins has his eye fixed on Indian spirituality which has always maintained itself even in the decline of the national vitality; it was certainly that which saved India always at every critical moment of ...
... only one instance just now where a philosopher has almost succeeded being a great poet – I am referring to Lucretius and his De Rerum Natura. Neither Shakespeare nor Homer had anything ¹ James H. Cousins in his New Ways in English Literature describes Sri Aurobindo as "the philosopher as poet." Page 52 like philosophy in their poetic creation. And in spite of some inclination ...
... Tm) and Barnabas his cousin (Ac 15:37, 39; Col 4:10) and Peter (1P 5:13), whose 'interpreter' he was, put Peter's preaching down in writing at Rome." But the book called "The Gospel according to Mark" could not be the work of John Mark to whom Paul refers towards the end of his Colossians: "Aristarchus, who is here in prison with me, sends his greetings, and so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas..." (4:10)... straight back from there to Damascus. Even when after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas [Peter] and stayed with him for fifteen days, I did not see any of the other apostles; I only saw James, the brother of the Lord, and I swear before God that what I have just written is the literal truth." It is clear that Paul could not have given the author of Acts either the first or the second account... systematically. He mentions (15:5-7) the appearance "to the Twelve", "to more than five hundred of the brothers" and "to all the apostles" and by contrast we have it "first to Cephas", "then... to James" 22 and finally to himself. There is a collective appearance and there is an individual one to a person all alone. Obviously, Paul's Damascus-vision occurred when no one was about.. The list does not ...
... K.D. Ghose was very friendly with Mr. Glazier, a magistrate at Rangpur, and when Dr. Ghose decided to send his three sons to England for studies, he arranged to leave them with Rev. William H. Drewett, a cousin of Mr. Glazier, who lived in Manchester. Mr. Drewett was congregational minister of the Stockport Road Church – now known as the Octagonal Church. He lived at 84, Shakespeare Street, near the... Ghose, who was very fond of the English 1. Cf. Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series, p. 141. 2. Rev. William H. Drewett was trained at Didsbury College (for ministers). He passed in 1865 and in all probability was ordained as a minister at Manchester in 1871. 3. "The Rev. W. H. Drewett, after a ministry of nearly ten years, has resigned the pastorate of the Stockport Road Congregational Church... his degree. Apparently none of his friends was in a position to maintain him at Cambridge for that third year, " It was in these circumstances of disappointment that he obtained a post in H. H. the Gaekwar of Baroda's service, from which he was, I believe, transferred to the Baroda Educational service as Professor or Lecturer in English Literature, a post for which, I should think, his ...
... Europe at a particular epoch of antiquity, but nobody can assert that here was their original home. Some linguistic arguments tend to point towards it, but Mr. de Sa may be interested to read what James Anderson, a philologist of note, has remarked in general apropos of such arguments: "In spite of a number of theories concerning the Indo-European homeland, varying from Asia to Scandinavia, none are... subcontinent, not as one group, but as several separate tribes over a period of centuries, perhaps. While the Irānians characterized their forefathers (Ahuras) as godly (Ahura-mazda) and their hostile cousins (Devas) as demoniac (Devils), the Vedics did the exact opposite, telling of the monstrous Asuras and the Divine Devas. (Incidentally, in the Graeco-Latin Christian tradition we have the paradoxical... Sumerian syllabary does not know of such a sign as I take to be a spoked wheel. Only the Mycenaean syllabary has anything like it. And there it definitely stands for a wheel, 7 though the number of 5.H. D. Sankalia, Indian Archaeology Today * Postscript in 1989. There is also a terracotta figurine from a late though not surface level at Mohenjo-dāro which Mackay and Pusalker have taken to ...
... 395-7. 29. See Iyengar, On the Mother, p. 124. 30. ibid., p. 125. 31. Italics mine. Vide Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother, p. 68. 32. J.H. Cousins and ME. Cousins, We Two Together (1951) 33. Mother India, December 1953, p.121. This is a part of his long poem, New Roads, which begins with the following 'Dedication to Sri Aurobindo.' ... 145. Savitri, p. 828. 146. ibid., pp. 908-9. 147. ibid., p. 821. 148. M ā nisāda pratisthām tvamagamah ś a ś vat ī h sam ā h. Yatkraucamithunadekamavadh ī h k ā ma mohitam. "Oh hunter, as you have killed one of these love-intoxicated birds, you will wander homeless all your long years." (Tr.by C.Rajagopalchari). ... 63. Kipling's fine story, "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat', is a moving tribute to this Indian tradition. 64. Rex Warner in his review (TheLondon Magazine, July 1959,p.65). 65. James Dickey, in his review of Kazantzakis' poem in The Sewance Review, Summer 1959, p. 518. 66. A Heifer of the Dawn, pp. vii-viii. Cf. Virgil: And now was Aurora, leaving the saffron ...
... nothing but a simple evening clear? SRI AUROBINDO: No. What has evening to do with it? Evening star? "Twinkle, twinkle, evening star! How I wonder what your temperatures are?" But I suppose Sir James Jeans knows and doesn't wonder. But anyhow E for Evening sounds both irrelevant and poetic. MYSELF: No, Sir, it is not at all irrelevant, though poetic. I swear it is Evening. You know they... one of which I suppose you will make mad and the other, one of the three you have divined! But what it this Jones—knows and doesn't wonder? SRI AUROBINDO: Jeans, Jeans, Jeans—not Jones! Sir James Jeans, sir, who knows all about the temperatures, weights and other family details of the stars, including E. By the way, what do you mean by deceiving me about E in the Hyderabad fever chart? R wrote... lipoma till it deserves a diploma for its size. An American skyscraper on the neck would be obviously inconvenient. SRI AUROBINDO: R is sending me charts of the fever temperature of his cousin B (an Ashram nomenclature) who has been suffering from typhoid, enteric (so the Colonel Doctor of Hyderabad says), with affection of chest which was suspected to be pneumonia. Now in his first chart ...
... September 12,1931 Sri Aurobindo's comments on Dilip's translation into Bengali of three poems from James Cousins, Jehangir Vakil and Tennyson. Page 103 The first translation is good, the second superb and the third (third version) superlative. Cousins' poem is very felicitous in expression—generally he just misses the best, but here he has done very well. Your translation... expression and feeling—one among your best. Nandalal's 1 "transformation" is very good and will make a charming frontispiece for your book. September 1,1931 Your surprise at your cousin H. L. Roy's behaviour shows as did your dealings with your Toku Mama that you do not yet know what kind of thing is the average human nature. Did you never hear of the answer of Vidyasagar when he was... hand that fed it. Sometimes it does that even before, when it thinks it can do it without the benefactor knowing the origin of the slander, fault-finding or abuse. In all these dealings of uncles and cousins with you there is nothing unusual, nothing, as you think, peculiar to you. Most have this kind of experience, few escape it altogether. Of course, people with a developed psychic element are by nature ...
... treated somewhere over there. Here his health continues to be bad and there is not the necessary skilled treatment. March 22, 1936 René is sending me charts of the fever temperature of his cousin Badrunnissa (an Asram nomenclature) who has been suffering from typhoid enteric (so the Colonel Doctor of Hyderabad says) with affection of chest which was suspected to be pneumonia. Now in his first... E stands for nothing but a simple evening. Clear? No. What has evening to do with it? Evening star? "Twinkle, twinkle, evening star! How I wonder what your temperatures are?" But I suppose Sir James Jeans knows and doesn't wonder. But anyhow E for Evening sounds both irrelevant and poetic. March 25, 1936 No, Sir, it is not at all irrelevant, though poetic. I swear it is evening. You... short-hands, and one of which I suppose you will make mad and the other one of the three you have divined! But what is this "Jones—knows and doesn't wonder"? Jeans, Jeans, Jeans—not Jones! Sir James Jeans, sir, who knows all about the temperatures, weights and other family details of the stars, including E. March 26, 1936 Friend C again, with his woeful tale! What a fellow! He ...
... stimulating series of articles that Sri Aurobindo contributed to the Arya from December 1917 to August 1920 under the general caption 'The Future Poetry' began as a critical review of Dr. James H. Cousin's New Ways in English Literature. The review, however, was only a starting-point. The rest was drawn from Sri Aurobindo's ideas and his already conceived view of Art and Life. And, ultimately... partake of the nature of the mantra, "that rhythmic speech which, as the Veda puts it, rises at once from the heart of the seer and from the distant home of the Truth". 1 In his book, Cousins, himself had speculated on the possibility of the discovery of the word, the rhythm, the configuration of thought proper to the reality which "lies in the apprehension of a something stable behind... and the later Yeats achieved publication, and even as regards the poetry of Meredith, Phillips, A.E. and Yeats, Sri Aurobindo had mainly to depend Page 615 on the quotations in Cousin's book. With all these limitations, however, Sri Aurobindo has been able to notice certain trends, certain possibilities, and get almost something of a faint foretaste of the future poetry. He sees ...
... is the present Ashram building. Page 418 A few memorable interviews that took place in 1920 are noted below: W.W. Pearson came from Shantiniketan and met the Mother. James H. Cousins came and met Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Dr. Munje came and stayed with Sri Aurobindo. He had long talks with the Master on political subjects. Sarala Devi Choudhurani came sometime... smooth- faced Vaishnava who came. So that was the vision of a man I had never seen but as he was to be in future a prophetic vision." 10 Saurin, Sri Aurobindo's brother-in-law (Mrinalini Devi's cousin) came from Bengal by the end of September and stayed with Sri Aurobindo. In October - probably towards the end - Sri Aurobindo moved from Shankar Chetty's house to Rue Suffren in the southern part... I felt a desire to see the Mother. The Mother had not yet come out of her seclusion nor had Sri Aurobindo retired. I said to Sri Aurobindo 'I would like to see Her before I go'. - Her with a capital H, in place of the Mother, for we had not yet started using that epithet. Sri Aurobindo informed the Mother. The room now used by Champaklal was the Mother's room in Page 399 those days ...
... religious community, but where family relationships are concerned the New Testament is quite explicit in distinguishing brothers and sisters from cousins. The Church has been dishonest to argue the contrary. When Paul, for instance, speaks of the Lord's brother James he is clear in not dubbing him "brother" in the sense that the members of his group were a fraternity. All the Evangelists are equally unequivocal... difficult to lay out. We begin with the earliest of the apocryphal Gospels, the Protevangelium of James. In its present form it dates from the fifth century but the greater part of it was written probably before the middle of the second century and was known to Origen (c. 185-253 AD) as the "Book of James". Here the early life of Mary was built up in a way that seemed fitting for one chosen to be the... direct documents of one who personally knew Peter and James "the Lord's brother" - namely Paul? Not only does Paul, when he has the chance to speak of Mary, mention her anonymously and make her out to be just a woman like any other and giving birth to Jesus in the way all women do to their children. He also shows thereby that neither Peter nor James, who could have known of the virginal conception ...
... were to me a constant source of pleasure. I also learned to love my family, my relatives, whom I visited during the holidays. There were my maternal grandfather and uncles and brother, sister and cousins and I used to long for the holidays, just like a child, so that I might go and live with them. The first time that I went home, that is to my grandfather's house at Deoghar, - since we didn't have... began to be widely studied in Bengal much later. Actually it was amusing for me, for while I spoke to my family and friends in English, they answered me in Bengali. I would advise my sister and my cousins to hurry up and learn English so that they might not find it difficult to follow what I said. Later I learned to speak Bengali from a tutor in Baroda." "You paid a teacher just to learn to speak... of our own any more - and I met my family, what a joy there was all around! It was as if I was a king. Particularly my younger brother and sister were overjoyed. There was also another young girl, a cousin who was at school. Maybe they all were a little nonplussed by me. For, when I arrived with my large trunks, they crowded round me, hoping to find all sorts of presents, but were most disappointed when ...
... by "monkey”? Disciple : The stage of consciousness before man evolved. Sri Aurobindo : That does not seem to be the accepted theory now. They say that the monkey and ourselves are cousins. All the same I should like that man would be nearer to Superman than the animal is to man. Disciple : It would mean that Supermind would work for humanity. Sri Aurobindo : It is not... Fabian Society and was very moral."' Chapter IV "There are inaccuracies such as his statement that I was introduced to the Gaekwad by Henry Cotton. It was not Henry Cotton but his brother, James Cotton, who knew my brother (and was being helped by him in his work) who introduced me to the Gaekwad because he took interest in us." Chapter V and VI "About Swami Hamsa I don't remember... Spirit corresponds to the Atman, and the Soul to the psychic being. It is the ,Purusha hrdaye ,, guh,āyām, "the Soul in the cave of the heart". Disciple : Is the "a ,n,gu,,stha mātra,h purus,ah,", spoken of in the Upanishad the same as the psychic being? Sri Aurobindo : It may be. I think the psychic being was meant by the phrase, “ Iśvarah sarvabhūtānām hr ,ddeśe ” the ...
... caution he is moved, see ? So— felt a little cheerful anyway. Evidently very much moved—to write like that. More important is Dhurjati's letter. Have just written to Dr. James Cousins at Madanapalli. He used to like me very much, once his wife (Dr. of Music of Cambridge) wrote I sing like a king, etc. So he may help D. M. to get him a cottage. I will pranam you a second time... catch the poetic quality in any language. But is Bengali sound difficult (pronunciation apart) ? If one knows one other Indian language, it should rather be easy to pick up. P.S. Today a cousin of mine has written that a sworn enemy of mine reading Suryamukhi said astonished: [Bengali word] Qu'en dites-vous ? A sworn enemy, mind, who had been saying all sorts of things against me... of because by their smallness they evade control and are terribly repetitive. The Megaphone Co. has offered to record father's Page 196 drama Sajahan. I have asked Sachin [cousin] to wire to me what would be reasonable. Send a little of your force as money would be welcome now particularly, in these days of slump when books sell so little. By the way, in the Puja installment ...
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