Ellis, Havelock : Henry H. Ellis (1859-1939), English writer, physician & sexologist.
... A Book of Love A friend of mine put Havelock Ellis's autobiography into my hands and asked me to read it and pay a tribute to its author. My friend is right in assuming that a tribute is deserved by Havelock Ellis. Perhaps the best tribute is to utter the paradox that the passing of Havelock Ellis leaves no gap in the world. It is the life either frustrated or cut short... art. No new genius in any sphere of art but found in Havelock Ellis an understanding that was deep as well as enthusiastic, the depth preventing the enthusiasm from being effusive, the enthusiasm saving the depth from heaviness of expression. It is no easy task to bring a correct critical insight to the quick of one's own life. But Ellis's natural bent as well as his long psychological and analytic... masterly and the feeling of the importance of the labour never flagged, so that in spite of severe opposition the writer's mind proceeded from start to finish without hurry, fear or weariness. Havelock Ellis's efficiency is not mechanical, nor even merely scientific. He is no soulless collector of facts. The beginning of his career as author, a man deeply interested in the fountains of creative art ...
... desire is forcibly dammed. But where spontaneity reigns, a different complexion is put on the problem. Some of the most memorable words in the autobiography of that master-psychologist of sex, Havelock Ellis, are: "the greatest of all revelations which my life with Edith brought me was this discovery that not only simple affection but the deepest passion of love can exist and develop continuously even... relationship of sex in the narrow sense has ceased to exist.... That is a discovery with a significance for life and for the institution of marriage which has not yet been measured." Both Havelock Ellis and Edith Lees were remarkable persons; their emotional natures were of an unusual fineness and the Red Immortal rode in great beauty through them. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett were perhaps... Red Immortal turns us all to a direct mysticism, a Bhakti Yoga that is enamoured of the supreme Divine, instead of the religion of romance that seeks its beau ideal in human personalities. Havelock Ellis and Edith Lees had terrible tensions in spite of their extraordinary fineness; Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett could not avoid petty unpleasantnesses. We of grosser grain must expect innumerable ...
... involuntary creation, of the individual man who therein expresses himself. The self that he thus expresses is a bundle of inherited tendencies that came the man himself can never entirely know whence."—Havelock Ellis , The Dance of Life (London: Constable, 1923), p. 175 . × The Bengali writer Buddhadev Bose ...
... mysticism - the paramount significance of Romanticism's poetry of the Spirit - spiritual poetry and two styles: Classical and Romantic In rounding off our survey we may cite a passage by Havelock Ellis on three famous personalities of the stage: it indicates with a fine imagination some essential qualities of the three strands we have traced in our subject. "The word classic suggests to... power that was aloof from the world." We may make use of Ellis's impressionism without committing 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 ...
... Realisation: that is the keyword in India. A man realises what love is by actually falling in love with a woman and taking her to himself — not by emotionally reading Shelley or intellectually studying Havelock Ellis. So too by a psychological process within him, which brings him into actual touch with a divine reality, and not by mere religious belief or philosophical speculation does he grow aware of his ...
... appreciating Anatole France's advice to writers, "Clarity first, clarity again and clarity always", has in his role as poet preferred in consonance with Sri Aurobindo's own insight the injunction of Havelock Ellis: "Be clear, be clear, be not too clear." For, in poetry there must be around a core of distinct brightness a halo of radiant mystery extending far into the depths of the ineffable. To play a variation ...
... however beautiful it may be, seemed beautiful to my eyes," he once wrote, bringing, as Havelock Ellis notes, a new sensation into literature, if not into life; "I need torrents, rocks, pines, dark forests, mountains, rough paths to climb by. precipices that fill me with fear." The landscape beauty that, as Ellis remarks, "appealed to the classic mind was easy and luxurious, pleasant to all the senses ...
... perhaps because England has more mist and fog than the other side of the Channel. The English poet William Watson has said: They see not the clearliest, Who see all things clear. And Havelock Ellis, looking at Anatole France's advice, has added his own comment of both agreement and disagreement: "Be clear. Be clear. Be not too clear." Page 219 Now we must understand what ...
... without falling into the framework of con-ventional Christendom. Rousseau is the first individual in Christian Europe who, according to Havelock Ellis, "presents a typical picture of 'conversion' altogether apart from any conventional religious creeds". By "conversion" Ellis must not be understood to mean anything comparable to what hap-pened to the great spiritual mystics, a new subsequent living in the ...
... an attempt at being clear, well-formulated, something you could catch, something you could visualise inwardly, it should combine with the clarity an element of mystery. So I would rather follow Havelock Ellis's dictum: "Be clear, be clear, be not too clear." What I infer from this is that we cannot do without clarity but that our clarity should lead on to a profundity beyond the mere mind — the profundity ...
... shown by the excerpt from a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy in the Foreword which adorned the original Indian edition of the book but which has unaccountably been dropped from this American one, Havelock Ellis who has done champion service in breaking ancient taboos agrees with Tagore's conception of man's and woman's offices. Not man's competitor Page 105 but his ...
... as shown by the excerpt from a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy in the Foreword which adorned the original Indian edition of the book but which has unaccountably been dropped from this American one, Havelock Ellis who has done champion service in breaking ancient taboos agrees with Tagore's conception of man's and woman's offices. Not man's competitor but his complement: this is Tagore's formula for woman ...
... French, perhaps because England has more mist and fog than the other side of the Channel. The English poet William Watson has said: "They see not the clearliest,/Who see all things clear." And Havelock Ellis, looking at Anatole France's advice, has added his own comment of both agreement and disagreement: "Be clear. Be Page 75 clear. Be not too clear." 2 '' 9. During my school days ...
... from the French, perhaps because England has more mist and fog than other side of the Channel. The English poet William Watson has said: ‘They see not the cleariest,/Who see all things clear.’ And Havelock Ellis, looking at Anatole France’s advice, has added his own comment of both agreement and disagreement: ‘Be clear. Be not too clear.’ “. Example 4 : “[My book Sri Aurobindo on Shakespeare ] has ...
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