Hardy : Thomas (1840-1928), English novelist; after his novels were denounced as indecent & immoral, he became one of the foremost poets.
... difficult to conceive of new habits spreading by copying and tradition."17 Now Hardy takes a further step. Reminding us of how, in the various telepathic experiments he has described, "impressions of design, form and experience... can occasionally be transmitted by telepathy from one human individual to another". Hardy asks: "might it not be possible for there to be in the animal kingdom as a whole... matter of the precise order in which the units are arranged in a giant molecule.' "26 Hardy is glancing at the substance of a pronouncement by a competent but dogmatic geneticist, F.H.C. Crick.27 It may as well serve to illustrate the general attitude of Monod and all who swear by him. We do not suggest that Hardy is totally capable of carrying to their ultimate conclusion the implications his s... Lord Brain goes on to demolish, on neurophysiological grounds, Ryle's argument. Hardy continues: "Sir John Eccles, one of our leading physiologists of brain action, in his Waynfleete Lectures at Oxford in 1952, to the astonishment of many supported the concept of the 'ghost in the machine'."39 Finally, Hardy refers to Sir Cyril Burt who "has recently in two important papers, 'The Structure of ...
... pervade his philosophical epic like a religion manque, even as the presence of ari "unweeting" power, absolute and endless in "crass casualty", is perceived in the world of Thomas Hardy. The atheisms of Lucretius and Hardy are really special forms, heroic or morbid according to temperament, of the mystical belief all ages have had in an utter Unknown that rules above the desires and imaginings of men... men the totality of things: the Greeks called it Ananke, the Fate and the Necessity that is greater even than the Gods. Steeped in the conception of that dark Supreme, poets like Hardy and Lucretius create their masterpieces and disclose in spite of themselves the real origin of inspiration. It is also significant that even atheists like them break forth on occasion into chants about living forces... inspired hails as all-fostering Venus, "delight of Gods and men," the procreative energy that is abroad in Nature; he invokes it as a Goddess to aid his exploration of "the secret ways of things". Hardy brings in a whole troop' of presiding powers, spirits of pity and irony pressing onward from above the Napoleonic drama depicted in The Dynasts. An instinct of the true source of the magnificence ...
... William Watson, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman and Robert Bridges. Page 413 I did not deal with all these poets because it was not in the scope of my idea to review the whole literature, but to follow only the main lines. But the main difficulty was that at the time I had no books and could only write from memory. I have read nothing of Housman—what I had read of Watson or Hardy did not attract me... artifice or through a straining towards the merely out-of-the-way or the perverse. But there seems to be no other door of progress than to make the endeavour. 10 October 1932 Housman, Watson, Hardy, Bridges I hear from Nolini that you want two books (reviewed in the New Statesman) representing the achievement of the seventeenth-century "Metaphysicals", in order to add some thing about them... Yeats and De la Mare, all of whom you know. There are about a hundred of them moderns, Spender + x + y + z + p² etc. Before that there were Hopkins and Flecker and others and before that Meredith and Hardy and Francis Thompson. You can tackle any of them you can lay your hands on in the library. Watson and Brooke and other Edwardians and Georgians would not be good for you. 16 October 1938 Originality ...
... undercurrent of anxiety. Thomas Hardy's novels have given a poignant picture of mankind's predicament in the universe. Hardy saw mankind 'swept from darkness to darkness, like a straw on a torrent, by a ruthless, mysterious and ignoble force.' And W.H. Auden (whose first master was Hardy), in his long poem Age of Anxiety, gives this account of modern man: ...crazed we come and coarsened we go ...
... Yeats and De La Mare, all of whom you know. There are about a hundred of them moderns, Spender + x y z p2 etc. Before that they were Hopkins and Fletcher and others and before that Meredith and Hardy and Francis Thompson. You can tackle any of them you can lay your hands on in the library. Watson and Brooke and other Edwardians & Georgians would not be good for you. October 16, 1938 ... lines are simply exquisite (simply in both senses)—all four indeed, precisely because they are so simple that the emotion and experience go straight through without a veil. You asked me to read Hardy, Spender, Meredith, Hopkins, besides De la Mare. A.E. and Yeats ... But how will Meredith and others help? Their poetry has nothing in common with ours, except the turn of expression, if that's what ...
... supposed, mark the beginning of a new stage of evolution, but that it is a relic of a more primitive function. In his address to the Zoological Section of the British Association in 1949, Professor A.C. Hardy suggested that telepathic communication may be most evident among gregarious animals and social insects; and if this were so, it would certainly help to solve some of the main theoretical problems of... any case, one good service our author's mistake does to the thesis we have been unfolding. By drawing attention to the biological antiquity, so to speak, of ESP and to the likelihood suggested by Dr. Hardy of ESP's prevalence among animals and insects she helps the whole evolutionary process to stand out in a more than materialistic light and the once-fashionable theory of chance and of blind forces to ...
... Dynasts of Hardy echoes the age's scepticism "that refuses everything but the general tragic fatality of existence. Napoleon appears as an insect on a leaf, armies look like caterpillars, earth a microscopically verminous mote and man a mere puppet jerked in heedless drama, while the unconscious Will, — the tragically unconscious Will, — eternally goes on "uselessly uttering existence." Hardy at close ...
... the Brahmavarta nations who desired to break the supremacy among them of the Kurus. Page 348 This Canto is in the very finest & most characteristic style of Vyasa; precise, simple & hardy in phrasing, with a strong, curt, decisive movement & a pregnant mode of expression, in which a kernel of thought is expressed & its corollaries suggested so as to form a thought-atmosphere around it ...
... secure than these troubled kingdoms; and in that realm nowhere is the soil so boggy, nowhere does scholastic ingenuity disport itself with such light fantastic footsteps over such a quaking morass of hardy conjecture and hasty generalisation as in the Sanscrit scholarship of the last century. But the Vedic question at least seemed to have been settled. It was agreed—firmly enough, it seemed—that the Vedas ...
... hat is an antiquated definition. Nervous debility is a special thing, an illness of the physical nervous;—neurasthenia proper is a weakness of the vital nervous. One may be as strong as a bull and hardy as an evergreen, yet have neurasthenia. Its mark is depression, gloom, reiteration of melancholy slogans, broodings on darkness, death, despair. The bull indulges in a sorrowful lowing; the evergreen ...
... evolution of a mighty, reasoning, aspiring, conquering, irrepressible Consciousness, capable of something like omnipotence and omniscience, out of mere material gases and chemical substance is a paradox so hardy, so colossally and impossibly audacious that mankind has rightly refused to accept it even when advanced with the prestige of Science and her triumphant analysis and the almost irresistible authority ...
... pressure of hunger, or when moved by the primitive impulses of sense and vitality and the needs of self-preservation. His senses are keen and his power of activity great because keen senses and a strong, hardy, agile body are necessary to self-preservation; but in the absence of necessity or stimulus he is profoundly indolent, even inert. His sensibility, physical or mental, is small, for sensibility depends ...
... infinite potential zero and infinite plenary x , they saw around them, before their eyes, below, above, a third sea of ever-developing conscious being, a sort of boundless wave, which they spoke of by a hardy metaphor as climbing up or flowing up beyond heaven to the supreme seas. It is this perilous ocean which we have to navigate. There Bhujyu, the seeker of enjoyment, son of King Tugra the Forceful-Hastening ...
... Jesus as literally raised and acting as described in Matthew, Luke, John and Acts. Pious fictions would have to be read by us in the accounts. Were the reporters capable of them? Sir Alistair Hardy, a Page 65 deeply religious biologist, asked in that fine book of his, The Divine Flame (p. 215): "would the theologians who proclaim the sanctity of the written word of the gospels ...
... At this time his father suddenly died. He dedicated to his father his first book titled Parnassians, a critical assessment of the work of H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, G.K. Chesterton and Thomas Hardy, whom he considered the four outstanding denizens of Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses. The Parsi author A.S. Wadia sent Wells, whom he personally knew, the article on him. Wells wrote Page ...
... farming but that (i.e. the lack of it) was no hindrance to him. He started with locally available paid manual labour. He started with terracing the hillocks, removing the wild growth, and planting some hardy rain-fed plants like cashew. As more land was bought, where the hillocks flattened out and met the Lake, he planted coconut trees — nearly 3000 of them! Once a week or so Louis came to the Play Ground ...
... continent, in the whole universe.” 369 Be it noted that in Hitler’s Ordensburgen, the highest Nazi elite schools, young people were trained to become the future governors of the conquered nations. Hardy Krüger, later starring in Hatari! and The Wild Geese, was one of the students. He remembers: “I took it for granted at the time that, after the final victory, I would become the governor of Moscow ...
... quite like our possession of it. In its sixth month, it caught the infection of an enteric epidemic which had already laid low all the cats in the neighbourhood. I have noticed that cats are very hardy creatures and can survive almost unthinkably adverse conditions of life, but when attacked by diseases their proverbial "nine lives" slip away pretty easily. The malady which affected Miel usually ...
... definition. Nervous debility is a special thing, an illness of the physical nervous;—neurasthenia Page 221 proper is a weakness of the vital nervous. One may be as strong as a bull and hardy as an evergreen, yet have neurasthenia. Its mark is depression, gloom, reiteration of melancholy slogans, broodings on darkness, death, despair. The bull indulges in a sorrowful lowing: the evergreen ...
... it all. The ascetics praise her with one voice, take leave of Dyumatsena and Satyavan, and go to their respective abodes. The last canto is a brief one and may be called, after Thomas Hardy, 'aftercourses' or, more appropriately, 'fulfilment'. In the morning, even as the ascetics are talking to Dyumatsena about Savitri, there come to the hermitage the people of Shalwa with the news that ...
... had to undergo some kind of martyrdom because of it. And Shelley, the supremely lyric singer, has had a very rich undertone of thought-content genuinely meta-physical. And Browning and Arnold and Hardy—indeed, if we come to the more moderns, we have to cite the whole host of them, none can be excepted. We left out the Metaphysicals, for they can be grouped as a set apart. They are not so much ...
... , his conduct was fairly good, but his attendance was very irregular. Recovered from illness, he now seeks re-employment. We do not want to engage him because he was very irregular and is not very hardy. He says he can get work in some Government department if we give him a certificate, and he has been asked to bring one from the Ashram. Should we give him anything in writing? Yes. If ...
... true. After some time Sri Aurobindo lay in bed. SRI AUROBINDO (to Purani): I was reading this book of Amiya Chakravarty, The Dynasts and Post-War Poetry. Most of the quotations he gives from Hardy, Auden, etc. are what I said of Ramesh Dutt's poetry: execrable. (Laughter) Give me the book, I shall read out some. (After reading out from the book here and there) Each one is worse than the other ...
... it, had to undergo some kind of martyrdom because of it. And Shelley, the supremely lyric singer, has had a very rich undertone of thought-content genuinely metaphysical. And Browning and Arnold and Hardy-indeed, if we come to the more moderns, we have to cite the whole host of them, none can be excepted. We left out the Metaphysicals, for they can be grouped as a set apart. They are not so much ...
... discovery of new and unforeseen or unexpected modes of "psychoses" or psychological states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the very quintessence ...
... even in poetry, philosophy and religion the drive towards life and action, capable of great fervour, feeling and enthusiasm, like all Indian peoples, but not emotional idealists ... in life simple, hardy and frugal, in their temperament courageous, pugnacious, full of spirit, yet with a tact in dealing with hard facts and circumventing obstacles, shrewd yet aggressive diplomats, born politicians, born ...
... exactly what we should have expected. The nations which are most averse to enter into an imperial system & cherish most their separate existence are those which are outside the centre of civilisation, hardy, warlike, only partially refined; and their aversion is still more emphatic when they have never or only for a short time been part of an empire. This is the real secret of the invincible resistance ...
... having in their thought and speech always a turn for strength, sense, accuracy, lucidity and vigour, in learning and scholarship patient, industrious, careful, thorough and penetrating, in life simple, hardy and frugal, in their temperament courageous, pugnacious, full of spirit, yet with a tact in dealing with hard facts and circumventing obstacles, shrewd yet aggressive diplomatists, born politicians ...
... made Who send their colonists and conquerors Across the world, till the wide earth contains One language only and a single rule. Yes, Nature is your grand imperialist, No moral sermonizer. Rude, hardy stocks Transplant themselves, expand, outlast the storms And heat and cold, not slips too gently nurtured Or lapped in hothouse warmth. Who conquered earth For Islam? Arabs trained in robbery, ...
... execute, Heroes like Prithuraj, who know not fear Nor put a limit to their vaulting thoughts Save death or unforgettable renown, The Rajpoot's choice. Are we not strong enough? We have a thousand hardy Bheels, expert In mountain warfare, swift unerring bowmen; We have ourselves to lead them, each worth thousands, Sheva Ekling above us and in our hands Our destiny and our swords. SUNGRAM ...
... phrase, So 'ham. I am He or more explicitly or to the question of the inquirer अहं ब्रह्मास्मि, I am Brahman. Cutting through all tremors & hesitations, scorning all doubt or reserve it announces with a hardy & daring incisiveness the complete identity of man & God. This is its gospel that the individual Self who seems so limited, thwarted, befouled, shamed & obscured with the bonds & shackles, the mud & ...
... Amiyoranjan was a responsible worker. He was for a long time the manager of the Ashram Printing Press. He was a good runner too — only short sprints, no stamina. He played football too. He was not too hardy and did not last long. He was the Mother’s ball-boy when She played tennis. One of his jobs was to precede or walk along with Mother, carrying the ground nuts or the toffees in their container from ...
... later, a car was given him. That (car) was the end of one era and the beginning of another. Nripen-da had also a younger community, so a healthier community to care for. I suspect too that we were more hardy and less concerned about ourselves. ...
... are presented here. We have made an attempt to suggest possible interpretations of later dreams and visions, based on the interpretations of the symbols given by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Some hardy souls may raise their eyebrows at this. We are aware that to give an interpretation would be like shooting an arrow at the Truth, which may, at the most, "hit a point, but not cover the whole target ...
... Shelley's Revolt of Islam, Keats's incomplete Hyperion have something of the epic accent, but they do not go far enough. Hugo's La Légende des Siécles or Browning's The Ring and the Book, Hardy' s Dynasts — all seem to have some element which can be called epic in the sense of a developing significance of life which they see, but they fail to achieve the largeness, the grandeur and the ...
... best story-telling in matter of grip and surprise is the second part of his later book, The Valley of Fear. The title of The Hound... reminds me of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Ubervilles. Hardy is a great short-story writer too and in the same genre I would recommend Somerset Maugham's collection under the title, The Casuarina Tree. Here I would put in a word for Daphne du Maurier's collection ...
... Romantic poetry qua poetry, he is Classicallyminded and finds true strength and solace in what he 7 cleverly labels as "the romantic Classicism of Greece, the romantic Realism of Iceland and of Hardy, the gaily realistic Classicism of eighteenth-century France". But the greatest classics, even while untinged by the mystic's vision and rapture, were yet deeply religious and felt their finest poetry ...
... magazines. At this time his father suddenly died. He dedicated to his father his first book titled Parnassians, a critical assessment of the work of H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, G.K. Chesterton and Thomas Hardy, whom he considered the four outstanding denizens of Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses. The Parsi author, A.S. Wadia sent Wells, whom he personally knew, the article on him. Wells wrote back, "Your ...
... and whence and whither, as Lucretius often does, Dante in several places, Milton not seldom, Goethe at times, Shelley on occasion, Wordsworth repeatedly, Lascelles Abercrombie in a notable measure, Hardy to a certain extent, Sri Aurobindo in a good part of his middle-period work. Neither does Homer pause at scattered points to impress on us directly his vision of broad basic issues. Nor does he consciously ...
... with whom he is in close poetical sympathy or for whom he has a strong appreciation; certain names which have come over to our ears with some flourish of the trumpets of renown, Thompson, Masefield, Hardy, do not occur at all or only in a passing allusion. But still the book deals among contemporary poets with Tagore, A. E. and Yeats, among recent poets with Stephen Phillips, Meredith, Carpenter, great ...
... turned up, it would be met by an order to X "Go and manage" or else an intimation to Durvasa not to be unreasonable. 4 September 1936 Page 39 What about my planning to read Meredith, Hardy, Shelley, Keats and the Continental and Russian writers? Lord, Sir, I wish I had time to follow out a programme as massive as yours. I have none even to dilate upon yours. 22 September 1936 ...
... unifying and indeed Page 253 unitary principle of all reality. 54 We have also the famous zoologist Alister Hardy who has cogently argued even for a telepathic background to the psychic factor he demonstrates as constituting through "behavioural selection" the main evolutionary ...
... acquainted with the best literatures of the world? Not indispensable,—even by being steeped in one literature, one can arrive. But useful of course. What do you say about my plans to read Meredith, Hardy, Shelley, Keats and the French and Russian writers? Lord, Sir, I wish I had time to follow out a programme as massive as yours. I have none even to dilate upon yours. You know I have hardly ...
... in short poems you get the essence of pure poetry. NIRODBARAN: Some modem poets themselves have written long poems. SRI AUROBINDO: By "long poems" they mean long like epics. PURANI: Thomas Hardy or somebody else has written some short poems on the French Revolution which seem to have creative force. SRI AUROBINDO: Poems on the French Revolution? Who on earth is the author? NIRODBARAN: ...
... -"The Ambrosia of Dionysus & Semele", 180n., 183n Greece, 73, 193-4, 196n., 281 Gupta, Atul, 234 Page 372 HALL, JOHN, 68n -"To His Tutor", 68n Hamlet, 185 Hardy, Thomas, 71, 88 Hegel, 246 Hilton, Walter, 114 -The Scale if Perfection, 115 Himalayas, the, 151 Hinduism, 242, 276-8, 280 Hitler, 274 Hobbes, 108 Homer, 52, 73, 83, 85-6, ...
... discovery of new and unforeseen or unexpected modes of "psychoses" or psychological states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the. very ...
... of a rickshaw now, we've reached our school." He turned to me and said: "There! you see you managed it quite well, even though you thought you couldn't walk." In this way he taught us to be hardy, patient and enduring. The foundations of my life were laid in those seven years as a schoolboy at the Anandamayi school. After leaving this school I was admitted to the Jagatbandhu Institute ...
... ss it means that conditions must change. By suffering, one is very often trying to exert will or pressure on the environment or circumstances to change them. Page 103 Q : Thomas Hardy said it is not the life that matters, it is the courage. A : The attitude. When a man takes it egoistically on himself, then the pressure of suffering is the greatest. When he can look upon ...
... Giradoux, Jean 268 Goethe 40,273,377,425-427 Gokhale,G.K.10 Gupta, Nolini Kanta 20 Gurdjieff34,35 Haas, William S. 307,316 Hakim, Khalifa A 33 Hardy, Thomas 251,377 Hartmann 33,34 Hegel 30,33 Highet, Gilbert 383,384,411,412,414 Hodgson, Ralph 367 Homer 53-55,265,267,319,320,370,381, 383,384,387 ...
... : Abercrombie tries to give a general criterion. Only one point I remember just now : he says that if the outlook of the poet is negative and pessimistic, his poetry cannot be "great" – e.g. Hardy. Sri Aurobindo : I don't see why. Usually, of course, great poets are not pessimistic, – they have too much life-force in them; but generally every poet is dissatisfied with something or ...
... the charter of imperialism.... ...it must be confessed that the very subtlety of his speculation and the dazzling opulence 'of its expression often combine to put off all except the most hardy intellect and the most persevering will; nor should it be forgotten that a philosophy that bases itself on the integral apprehension of truth cannot be understood merely with the discursive intellect ...
... sacrifice." Swadesamitran was a moderate paper. Bharati was chafing under its harness as his views became more and more radical. Tirumalchariar and Srinivasachariar, the Mandayam brothers, were hardy patriots, and did not see why they should not spend their inherited fortune for the Motherland. Thus was born a new Tamil weekly, India, based in Madras. It was begun in 1906, at around the same time ...
... amount of pressure that they exerted on the Secretary of State for India? Those were the letters Sukumar had written during his father's incarceration in Agra Jail to men like Ramsay MacDonald, Keir Hardy, Sir Henry Cotton and others, and the replies he had received from them. "For Page 67 the first time, no doubt under pressure from British Members of Parliament, the police, who never ...
... Keats' s incomplete Hyperion have something of the epic accent, but they too do not succeed much. Victor Hugo's La Legende des Siecles, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, and Thomas Hardy's Dynasts — all seem to have some element of epic, but they fail to achieve the largeness, the grandeur and the integral vision. So the critics now feel that the authentic epic as a literary form ...
... and perhaps even Doctor Zhivago, though written in prose, make a total impact that is not unlike the impact of epics on us. And what is one to say about a phenomenon like Goethe's Faust or Hardy's The Dynasts} The Cantos of Ezra Pound sets a similar problem: is it an epic, too, an epic still in progress? And we have, above all, Nikos Kazantzakis' colossal epic The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel ...
... immortal individuals and the other of individuals growing old and being progressively replaced through death by new and younger ones, it is without a shadow of doubt that the second group would be the hardier and stronger of the two." 3 "From the point of view of evolutionary history, death has not been the primary phenomenon; it is rather a late-comer on the scene, appearing not so much as an ...
... some difficulty, limitation and unease, some want of equation between the fine but severely self-limiting character of this kind of creative power and the spirit of the age. At one time indeed it was hardily predicted that since the modern mind is increasingly scientific and less and less poetically and aesthetically imaginative, poetry must necessarily decline and give place to science,—for much the same ...
... joy, of mastery and inner lordship. It is these things that he seeks to know and follow, to possess, discover, enjoy, increase. It is for this great adventure that he came into the world, to walk hardily through the endless fields they offer to him, to experiment, to dare, to test the utmost limit of each capacity and follow each possibility and its clue to the end as well as to observe in each its ...
... one clean to the top is the gift of designing a spacious, a palatial, a Page 179 multitudinous unity. By this time, the thirties, we know only one attempt to make mightily; but Hardy's Dynasts is a sprawling greatness. Though its plan has behind it an intention more intricate and extensive than the Iliad, it lacks the organic control the latter, for all "our vagueness about its single ...
... of the Upanishads unsurpassed in their subtlety and sublimity in ancient times? There are three possible explanations. First, this sudden spirituality may have been brought in from outside; it is hardily suggested by some scholars that it was taken from an alleged highly spiritual non-Aryan southern culture; but this is an assumption, a baseless hypothesis for which no proof has Page 680 ...
... Shelley's Revolt of Islam, Keats' incomplete Hyperion have something of the epic accent, but they do not go far enough. Hugo's La Légende des Siècles or Browning's The Ring and the Book, Hardy's Dynasts— all seem to have some element which can be called epic in the sense of a developing significance of life which they see, but they fail to achieve Page 27 the largeness, the ...
... d by the prodigious sweep of imagination which in Valmekie successfully grasps and compels the most reluctant materials. The result is that puerilities and gross breaches of taste fall easily and hardily from his pen. Not one of these could we possibly imagine as consistent with the severe, self-possessed intellect of Vyasa. Fineness, justness, discrimination and propriety of taste are the very soul ...
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