Horace : (65-08 BC); after the death of Virgil, he was the chief literary figure in Rome. He represents par excellence the spirit of the Augustan Age of Rome.
... misgivings on this score are due to my surmise that they (Hector and Horace 1 ) don't seem to posterity as outstandingly psychic beings, do they? Nevertheless, I am glad that Horace was one of my refreshing ancestors, though I would have preferred to have been Catullus, 2 the philosopher poet. But I fondly trust that Horace was not simply a poet but a man too, worth the name. But somehow I am... of what was before. Thus you must not expect to be what Hector and Horace were. Something of the outer characteristics may reappear, e.g. the lyrist, prosodist, social writer, Page 342 thinker on life that was in Horace—but very much changed and new-cast in a new combination. Nor must you expect to find in Horace poetry like your own as it is in a new direction that the energies will... consciously active in dream on supraphysical planes. June 15, 1933 The other day at pranam the Mother saw in me the great Latin poet Horace as one of my former incarnations, and what surprised her more was, she said, that Horace, a moment later, brought along Hector, 2 the Trojan King ____________________ 1. Girish Ghose, a Bengali dramatist and actor, disciple of Sri ...
... composed afterwards by someone and put into the Mahabharata. In any case whoever wrote it was a great Yogi and certainly received his inspiration from Krishna. Catullus and Horace You prefer Catullus [ to Horace ] because he was a philosopher? You have certainly rolled Lucretius here into Catullus—Lucretius who wrote an epic about the "Nature of Things" and invested the Epicurean philosophy... red ant. He was an exquisite lyrist—much more spontaneous in his lyrism than the more sophisticated and well-balanced Horace, a poet of passionate and irregular love, and he got out of the Latin language a melody no man could persuade it to before him or after. But that was all. Horace on the other hand knew everything there was to be known about philosophy at that time and had indeed all the culture ...
... of the C. S. Commissioners a Memorial from Mr A. A. Ghose which should have been addressed to the Commissioners, inasmuch as the decision of the matter to which it refers rests with them. Horace Walpole The Secretary Civil Service Commission. XIII Mr Godley, Mr J. S. Cotton called on me this morning and left the enclosed letter to him from Mr Ghose's Tutor... your Memorial of the 21st inst. and, in reply, to inform you that it has been transmitted to the Civil Service Commissioners whose duty it is to decide upon the matter to which it relates. Horace Walpole A. A. Ghose Esq. 6, Burlington Road, Bayswater. W. XVI Minute Paper. J & P 1966 / 1892 Public Department. Letter from C. S. Commissioner... he is disabused of such an absurd notion the better. K [Kimberley] Dec. 2/92 Page 335 XXI I. 0. 7 Dec. 1892 Sir, With reference to Sir Horace Walpole's letter of the 26th ultimo, I am directed to inform you that the Civil Service Commissioners decline to afford you further facilities for undergoing the examination in Riding and that, in ...
... to commemorate his 90th birthday, I had called him Musarum Sacerdos (Priest of the Muses) borrowing a phrase from Horace. This struck a chord with Amal and even provoked some speculation about a possible previous incarnation: Your article with its epigraph from Horace has well touched the core of my poetic life with the words " musarum sacerdos " and taken them far beyond the priesthood... that Caesar Octavius, renamed Augustus, is an early manifestation of Sri Aurobindo of the vibhuti kind. No wonder the two greatest bards Augustus patronised were born again - Virgil as Nolini and Horace as Dilip - to be patronised by Sri Aurobindo. I, who as a poet was patronised by him even more than they, am still a question mark in connection with the time of the first Roman emperor. I feel a great ...
... that he was never certain that a poet-friend of the disciple and, for some time, a fellow-sadhak had been Shelley in a past life, Sri Aurobindo added: "as I am for instance about Dilip having been Horace. I am certain because that was 'seen' [by the Mother] and I myself can remember very well (psychically, not in any outward event) my contact with his personality then." (19.7.1937) When... disciple suggested that Sri Aurobindo might have been Julius Caesar or Mark Antony and the Master gave a clue that he had been neither, the disciple wrote: "So who remains a famous person in contact with Horace? The answer is unmistakable: Caesar Octavianus, afterwards Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. Have I at last hit the nail on the head? If so, will you please tell me, as you did about Leonardo da... organised the life of the Roman empire and it was this that made the framework of the first transmission of the Graeco-Roman civilisation to Europe - he came for that work and the writings of Virgil and Horace and others helped greatly towards the success of his mission. After the interlude of the Middle Ages, this civilisation was reborn in a new mould in what is called the Renaissance, not in its life ...
... glorious things to come: Not only poems superbly crafted but a new kind of poetry, truly the carmina non prius audita - songs never heard before - for which Horace claimed the tide 'Priest of the Muse' in ancient times. But Horace was not a real innovator, and if he followed the conventions of the day in paying lip-service to the muse of poetic inspiration he did not follow her to the... Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic A Priest of the Muses ...Carmina non prius Audita musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto. [Horace (Odes I) ] THE appearance of a volume of poems of the highest quality is a rare event in any age, and in our own can be considered almost a miracle. Lovers of poetry can throw away ...
... and their minds and characters seem to have strong affinities with mine in different ways. Have you any intuition in the matter of my past lives? Mother once saw Horace (as well as Hector) behind Dilip; but she has told me nothing about myself except that she is positive I was an Athenian. "A strong influence from one or more poets... the life of the Roman Empire and it was this that made the framework of the first transmission of the Graeco-Roman civilization to Europe - he came for that work and the writings of Virgil and Horace and others helped greatly towards the success of his mission. After the interlude of the Middle Ages, this civilisation was reborn in a new mould in what is called the Renaissance, not in its ... everybody. It is the phenomenon noted by Arjuna in his question to Krishna, 'Why does one do evil though one wishes not to do it, as if compelled to it by force?', and expressed sententiously by Horace: 'video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor' By constant effort and aspiration one can arrive at a turning point when the psychic asserts itself and what seems a very slight psychological change ...
... self-satisfaction rather than any strong thirst for poetical glory and immortality and leaving most of my poetry in the drawer for much longer than, even for twice or thrice the time recommended by Horace who advised the poet to put by his work and read it again after ten years and then only, if he still found it of some value, to publish it. Urvasie , the second of the only two poems published early... value. On the other hand in defending I may seem to be eulogising my own work, which is not a thing that can be done in public even if a poet's estimate of his achievement is as self-assured as that of Horace, Exegi monumentum aere perennius , or as magnificent as Victor Hugo's. Similarly, the reply was not meant for Mendonҫa himself and I do not think the whole can be shown to him without omissions or ...
... has to be our choice. To me Sri Aurobindo wrote that he had "a psychic memory" of Dilip Kumar Roy as Horace, evidently a carry-over from the time he had been Augustus. The Mother, on one Pranam-occasion, saw two figures behind Dilip. When she described them to Sri Aurobindo he identified them as Horace and Hector. In the age of the siege of Troy Sri Aurobindo is taken to have been Paris, the Mother Helen ...
... articles as well as to the enterprising editors and the lavish-handed finance-providers, whose hearts and minds moved to make memorable my ninetieth birthday. Your article with the epigraph from Horace has well touched the core of my poetic life with the words "musarum sacerdos" and taken them far beyond the priesthood of the Muses practised in the Augustan Age of Rome. It is thought-provoking that... expression of the Divine, but as a Vibhuti, a leader of the age in whom the Divine works from the background. No wonder the two greatest bards Augustus had patronised were born again -Virgil as Nolini and Horace as Dilip - to be patronised by Sri Aurobindo. I, who as a poet was patronised by him even more than they, am still a question-mark in connection with the Page 316 time of the first ...
... punishment, Cicero called it (Verrines 5.66); the ultimate penalty, Apullius called it (The Golden Ass 10); the penalty of slaves it was commonly called (Tacitus, Histories 4.11; Juvenal 6.218; Horace, Satires, 1.3.8). It was a punishment which could only be inflicted on slaves and non-citizens." The pagans would see nothing save "madness" in Paul's preaching about a God-man hung on a cross, knowing... death on a cross." 229 Keeping before us the word "slave" and the phrase "death on a cross" we cannot help remembering that crucifixion was commonly called by Tacitus, Juvenal and Horace "the penalty of slaves". How could one who would assume the condition of a slave as the utter opposite of his equality with God be conceived by Paul as escaping a slave's fate after being crucified ...
... On the other hand in defending I may seem to be eulogising my own work, which is not a thing that can be done in public even if a poet's estimate of his achievement is as self-assured as that of Horace, Exegi monumentum aere perennius, or as magnificent as Victor Hugo's. Similarly, the reply was not meant for Mendonca himself and I do not think the whole can be shown to him without omissions... self-satisfaction rather than any strong thirst for poetical glory and immortality and leaving most of my poetry in the drawer for much longer than, even for twice or thrice, the time recommended by Horace who advised the poet to put by his work and read it again after ten years and then only, if he still found it of some value, to publish it. Urvasie, the second of the only two poems published early ...
... believe, many Frenchmen regard as the eighth wonder of the world. Will you assign Heredia his right place in the poetic hierarchy? Flecker says of him that he was 'the most perfect poet that ever Uvea—Horace not in it.' "] "I cannot say that I find Heredia's sonnet to be either an eighth wonder or any wonder. Heredia was a careful workman in word and rhythm and from that point of view the sonnet... sonnet is faultless. If that is all that is needed for perfection, it is perfect. But otherwise, except for the image in the first two lines and the vagour of the fourth, I find it empty. Horace, at least, was seldom that. "The first six lines of your translation do not come to much 1 — but the seventh and eighth and the whole sestet are fine. There is much more of the precious, if not of ...
... The Sun and The Rainbow The Fount of Poetry The Roman poet Horace has the dictum: "No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water-drinkers." Horace touches a sympathetic chord in me with his winy nature, but I cannot echo his thought on poetry-writing. I should rather say: "There can be no long-pleasing or living poems ...
... perfection, just as Shakespeare stole all his plots from whoever he could find any worth stealing. But all the same, if that applies to Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, what about Alcaeus, Sappho, Catullus, Horace? They did a good deal of inventing or of transferring—introducing Greek metres into Latin, for example. I can't spot a precedent in modern European literature but there must be some. And after all... pursue farther the trairath [triple chariot]. I quite agree about the metre and its success. In this form the poem is still better than it was before. ____________________ 1. Words from Horace, meaning "the irritable race of poets." Page 274 December 1932 When the colours begin to take definite shapes it is a sign of some dynamic work of formation going on in the co ...
... lived (Horace not in it)". I cannot say that I find Heredia's sonnet to be either an eighth wonder or any wonder. Heredia was a careful workman in word and rhythm and from that point of view the sonnet is faultless. If that is all that is needed for perfection, it is perfect. But otherwise, except for the image in the first two lines and the vigour of the fourth, I find it empty: Horace, at least ...
... the best way to achieve their aim was to bring in the greatness of classical harmony and the nobility and beauty of Greek and Latin utterance by naturalising the quantitative metres of Virgil, Ovid, Horace. It was also natural that some of these innovators should conceive that this could be best done by imposing the classical laws of quantity wholesale on the English language. At the first attempt... accomplishment. The rhythm that was so great, so beautiful or, at the lowest, so strong or so happy in the ancient tongues, the hexameter of Homer and Virgil, the hexameter of Theocritus, the hexameter of Horace and Juvenal becomes in their hands something poor, uncertain of itself and defective. There is here the waddle and squawk of a big water-fowl, not the flight and challenge of the eagle. Longfellow ...
... or unrolling of mats at meditation time, or the culling and sorting of flowers, or the washing and piling up of plates and cups, or conscientiously doing "gate duty" - one was apt to say echoing Horace, "And seek for Truth in the Ashram at Pondicherry".* After a few days' stay, one felt it would be a fair description of the Yoga-Ashram at Pondicherry to call it the first, faltering, ... old people, there were men, women, children; and there were poets, painters, musicians, retired civilians, ex-professors and ex-revolutionaries, * Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum. (Horace, Ep., II, 2,45; And to seek truth among the groves of Academus.) Page 726 physicians and surgeons, nurses and teachers, engineers and entrepreneurs, sadhus and ecstatics, and all ...
... Hospital. 1764 first Rowley forgery Elinoure & Juga. 1767 apprenticed to Lambert. 1768-9 contributions to London magazines. 1768 attempt to get Dodsley to publish especially Ella. 1769 attempt to interest Horace Walpole. 1770 life in London & death. 3) Speght's Glossary to Chaucer. Kersey's Dictionary. metres not 15ṭḥ century; rhymes inconsistent with 15ṭḥ century pronunciation; words either noted down ...
... gravi|ora, || dab|it deus | his quoque | finem. (Virgil) Fiercer | griefs you have | suffered; || to | these too | God will give | ending. (3) Nec fa|cundia | deseret | hunc || nec | lucidus | ordo (Horace) Him shall not | copious | eloquence | leave || nor | clearness and | order. In the first example, the caesura comes at the third foot; in the second example, it comes at the third foot but ...
... values. The greatness of Shakespeare, of Dante, of others of the same rank is unquestioned and unquestionable and the recognition of it has always been there in their own time and afterwards. Virgil and Horace stood out in their own day in the first rank among the poets and that verdict has never been reversed since. The area of a poet's fame may vary; it may have been seen first by a few, then by many, ...
... Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil and Lucretius. These six, all things considered, are indeed greater than the brilliant sextet: Pindar, Simonides, Sappho, Horace, Catullus, Ovid. There need be no quarrel on this score. But does Page 20 Homer belong exactly to the same pychological ...
... distrust of emotion, good breeding. These qualities are not intrinsically objectionable: in their true form they are some aspects of an authentic Classicism and make fine poetry indeed in the works of Horace who, next to Virgil, was the most famous figure in the circle of poets around the Roman Emperor Augustus. The bane of the pseudo-Augustans was an over-exter-nalisation of the cultured mind. Against ...
... organised the life of the Roman Empire and it was this that made the framework of the first transmission of the Graeco-Roman civilisation to Europe—he came for that work and the writings of Virgil and Horace and others helped greatly towards the success of his mission. After the interlude of the Middle Ages, this civilisation was reborn in a new mould in what is called the Renaissance, not in its life-aspects ...
... University. As a classical scholar, Aurobindo was participating in an educational system whose traditions went back to the Renaissance. To master Greek and Latin, to read Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, to absorb the culture of classical Greece and Rome — these were considered the proper training of an English gentleman. And what one learned in the classroom and lecture hall was only a part, and ...
... Heehs: ‘As a classical scholar, Aurobindo was participating in an educational system whose traditions went back to the Renaissance. To master Greek and Latin, to read Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, to absorb the culture of classical Greece and Rome – these were considered the proper training of an English gentleman. And what one learned in the classroom and lecture hall was only part, and not ...
... poets very strongly appeal to me and their minds and characters seem to have strong affinities with mine in different ways. Have you any intuition in the matter of my past lives? The Mother once saw Horace (as well as Hector) behind Dilip; but she has told me nothing about myself except that she is positive I was an Athenian." Sri Aurobindo replied: "A strong influence from one or more poets or all of ...
... guillotine across his neck. The memory was so vivid." Such a vividness of memory was once admitted by Sri Aurobindo himself to me in another context. He wrote that he had a psychic memory of Dilip as Horace: what was sous-entendu was his own birth as Augustus, who was Horace's patron and whose essential role in Europe's evolution Sri Aurobindo went on to outline to me just as he outlined that of ...
... works." 7 It is a creative stimulus that comes from admiration for and a deep sense of kinship with another poet. It changes one's whole poetic personality. 8 Many great authors have 3 Poets— Horace, Rajasekhara, Du Belley, Boileau, Pope, Wordsworth, Eliot, etc.—who have developed an ars poetica, have themselves, in the first place, applied their precepts. 4 Kuntaka, Vakroktijivita, ...
... 138, 140 See also Divine, the; Ishwara Grof, Stanislav, 322, 391 Gunas, 108-18 transcendence of, 115-16 transformation of, 117-18 Higher Mind, see under Mind Horace, 39 Human development, 390-401 Human evolution cycles of, 250, 255 three successive elements, 255-61 Hypnosis (hypnotism), 53, 82, 246-47 Ignorance (the), 24 ...
... uncommon; but the combination of the two has not been found perhaps more than a dozen times since the world began. Because he possessed this harmonious combination, Kālidāsa ranks not with Anacreon and Horace and Shelley, but with Sophocles, Virgil and Milton. 7 There are references to Kālidāsa's greatness as a poet at different times, in our own country from scholars and poets of eminence, even ...
... goods had virtually free entry into India while entry into Britain of Indian goods was met with prohibitive tariffs. It was also decided to curtail direct trade between India and the rest of the world. Horace Hayman Wilson in 1845 in Page 8 The History of British India from 1805 to 1835 wrote: 'The foreign manufacturer employed the arm of political injustice to keep down and ultimately ...
... (with a surprised humorous frown) : How? I don't know how. One simply does it! CHAMPAKLAL (interrupting the talk) : My eyes always remain watery. SRI AUROBINDO: Virgil had eyes like that, while Horace used to breathe hard. Once Mycaenas, the great patron of literature in the reign of Augustus Caesar, was sitting between the two poets and said, "I am sitting between sighs and tears." (Laughter) ...
... Petrarch, Shelley or our Tagore seem to be emanations of Beauty, Harmony, Love – Mahalakshmi. And the perfect artisanship Page 209 of Mahasaraswati has found its especial embodiment in Horace and Racine and our Kalidasa. Michael Angelo in his fury of inspirations seems to have been impelled by Mahakali, while Mahalakshmi sheds her genial favour upon Raphael and Titian; and the meticulous ...
... I repeat, for their intrinsic interest, not for the sake of the subject which they have to embody and clothe, have never been dream by Aristotle, the supreme legislator among the ancients, nor by Horace, the almost incomparable craftsman among the ancients in the domain of poetry. Man has become, to be sure, a self-conscious creator to the pith of his bone. Such a stage in human evolution, the ...
... Waste Land, The, 10, 114,294, 535 Wedgewood, Colonel, 530 Wells, H.G., 511 Whitehead, A. N., 441 Whitman, Walt, 78, 615 Who, 161 Wilson, Horace Hayman, 13 Wilson, Margaret Woodrow (Nishta), 577 Wilson, President Woodrow, 413 Wingfield-Stratford, Esme, 13 Witch of Ilni. The, 119,152-53 Woodroffe, Sir ...
... confining life and dividing body." — Sri Aurobindo Page 409 Higher Mind — see under Gradations between Mind and Supermind. hirạnmaya pā tra — golden lid. Horace —(65-08 BC) Latin poet. icchā-mṛtyu — the power of abandoning the body definitively without the ordinary phenomena of death, by an act of will. Idea-force — the power in the idea ...
... × "Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." ("I see the better and approve of it, I follow the worse.") Horace (Ed.) ...
... pass¦i gravi¦ora,¦¦dab¦it deusjhis quoque jfinem- (Virgil) Fiercerjgriefs you have¦suffered;¦¦to¦these too¦God will giveا ending. (3) Nec¦fa¦cundia¦deseret¦hunc¦¦nec¦lucidus[ordo (Horace) Him shall not¦copious¦eloquence¦leave¦¦nor¦cleamess andا order. "In the first example, the caesura comes at the third foot; in the second example, it comes at the third foot but note that ...
... follows: “As a classical scholar, Aravinda was participating in an educational system whose traditions went back to the Renaissance. To master Greek and Latin, to read Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, to absorb the culture of classical Greece and Rome – this was considered the proper training of an English gentleman. And what one learned in the classroom and lecture hall was only part, and not ...
... the same values. greatness of Shakespeare, of Dante, of others of the rank is unquestioned and unquestionable and the recogn1 of it has always been there in their own time and afterwards. Virgil and Horace stood out in their own day in the first rank Page 134 among the poets and that verdict has never been reversed since. The area of a poet's fame may vary; it may have been seen first ...
... is. Incidentally, I am more convinced than ever that you lived and wrote and sighed ('I am between tears and sighs', said Maecenas as he sat between the weak and watery-eyed Virgil and the aesthetic Horace) under Augustus Caesar. You have kept the spirit and turn and most even of the manner. "Your 'epistolary frivolity' was all right. There is laughter in the Kingdom of Heaven, though there may ...
... it no saving grace at all? What do you advise me to do with it? Limbo? As to the sentence on your poem, I told you I could not pronounce even a definitive verdict. There was a recommendation by Horace or some other impossibly wise critic that when you Page 590 have written a poem the safest rule is to put it in your desk, leave it there for ten years and then only take it out and read ...
... a man grave, stern, sombre, full of retained force, a great lover of Augustus, but yet they did not always get on very well together from want of sufficient intellectual comprehension of each other—Horace—No—it was a private friendship—To found the empire? Agrippa, Maecenas,—at first Antony, though they quarrelled afterwards—You see, that was a dream & dreams very often distort things. You must understand ...
... Poems in Quantitative Metres The Future Poetry The Witness and the Wheel The metre is the little Asclepiad used by Horace in his Ode addressed to Maecenas, two choriambs between an initial spondee and a final iamb. Here modulations are admitted, trochee or iamb for the spondee, occasionally a spondee for the concluding iamb; an epitrite or ionic a minore ...
... perfection, just as Shakespeare stole all his plots from wherever he could find any worth stealing. But all the same, if that applies to Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, what about Alcaeus, Sappho, Catallus, Horace? they did a good deal of inventing or of transferring—introducing Greek metres into Latin, for example. I can't spot a precedent in modern European literature, but there must be some. And after all ...
... years, he returned to Bengal, where he got married in December 1919. Sri Aurobindo drafted this letter to him a little before that time. The Latin phrase seems to be a variant of the quotation from Horace found on page 137. It would mean "whither does this uncertainty lead". To A. B. Purani. 21 February 1920 . Ambalal Balkrishna Purani (1894 - 1965) met Sri Aurobindo in 1918, when he came to ...
... not fit to be!" Well, both the howlers have some sense, though far from the literal one, which is: "Poets are born, not made." The howlers are not quite off the mark because poets are often nasty. Horace has the phrase: vatum irritabile genus, "the irritable tribe of poets"; and it is also a fact that they are born but that many people, especially those to whom they go on spouting their verse, find ...
... fixed or stable; the appearance of stability is given by constant repetition and recurrence of the same vibrations and formations. That is why our nature can be changed in spite of Vivekananda and Horace and the subconscient, but it is a difficult job because the master mode of Nature is this obstinate repetition and recurrence. As for the things thrown away from us that come back, it depends on ...
... burst into laughter." Sri Aurobindo: Oh, so it was Vishnu's Ananda that descended! Later on, Champaklal said, "My eyes always remain watery." Sri Aurobindo: Virgil had eyes like that, while Horace used to breathe hard. Once Mycaenas, the great patron of literature in the reign of Augustus Caesar, was sitting between the two poets and remarked, "I am sitting between sighs and tears." Addressing ...
... conceived of a revolutionary proposal, "a radical blow stricken at the heart of States' sovereignty": a total fusion between England and France — one flag, one parliament^ one people. Monnet convinced Horace Wilson, who in turn persuaded Chamberlain to speak to Churchill. The British Prime Minister was startled and not really convinced. But, as he later said, "in this crisis we must not let ourselves be ...
... 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, 93, 147, 176 Horace, 89 Horatio, 173-5 Housman, 88 Hugo, Victor, 52 Huxley, Aldous, 114, 131-3, 144, 181 Index expurgawrius, 23 India, 53, 73, 105, 175, 199, 217-18, 222, 226, 228-9, 231, 235 ...
... I repeat, for their intrinsic interest, not for the sake of the subject which they have to embody and clothe, have never been dreamt by Aristotle, the supreme legislator among the ancients, nor .by Horace, the almost incomparable craftsman among the ancients in the domain of poetry. Man has become, to be sure, a self-conscious creator to the pith of his bone. Such a stage in human evolution, the ...
... 6n., 9, 21-2, 58, 76-7, 83, 93, 105, 108, 112n., 125n., 143, 157,160-1 Great War, the, 323, 355 Greece, 199,214,419,421 HAMLET, 79 Heard, Gerald, 135 Heraclitus, 305 Homer, 209 Horace, 210 Huxley, Aldous, 136 INDIA, 3, 17,21,96,118,137,141,191-2, 199,209,285-6,419-20 Indo-China, 324 Indra, 208, 253 Indus Valley, 133 Ingres, 429 Inquisitors, the, 99 Iphigenia ...
... of Mahakali. Virgil or Petrarch, Shelley or our Tagore seem to be emanations of Beauty, Harmony, Love—Mahalakshmi. And the perfect artisanship of Mahasaraswati has found its especial embodiment in Horace and Racine and our Kalidasa. Michael Angelo in his fury of inspiration seems to have been impelled by Mahakali, while Mahalakshmi sheds her genial favour upon Raphael and Titian; and the meticulous ...
... could fight and legislate, he could keep the states together, but he made the Greek think for him. Of course, the Greeks also could fight but not always so well. The Roman thinkers, Cicero, Seneca, Horace, all owe their philosophy to the Greeks. That, again, is another illustration of what I was speaking of as the inrush of forces. Consider a small race like the Greeks living on the small projecting ...
... — or violent revulsions and retreats — and, finally, to revisions, readjustments and revaluations. There were sympathetic and understanding scholars like Sir William Jones, Henry Colebrooke and Horace Hayman Wilson who opened the way to Indo-British cultural understanding. The European Christian missionaries, of course, had their own axes to grind, but they too indirectly helped to lift the cultural ...
... SECTION TWO His study of Divining Thought A SELECTION FROM THE WRITINGS OF AMAL-KIRAN According to Horace's Ars Poetica a good poem comes both with spontaneous naturalness and well-cultivated craft, combining a lot of book-learning and inspiration. Amal-Kiran's poetry is not only good, but is ...
... or word in each line except the fifth; but it is better rhythm and better poetry as it is. I hope you will find this satisfactory in spite of the two departures from your model. P.S. In Horace's line upon the eloquence and clear order, I have found that I dropped a word and truncated the hexameter. I have restored the full line. Page 237 The Genesis of Thought the Paraclete and ...
... far the comparison between Savitri and the Divine Comedy . We may also remember that to have a sustained quality does not necessarily render a work superior to another which has ups and downs. Horace's dictum, "Even Homer sometimes nods", refers to the Iliad , but surely the epos of Achilles's wrath is greater than that of Odysseus's wanderings. There is a dazzling fire, there is a dizzying ...
... stable; the appearance of stability is given by constant repetition and recurrence of the same vibrations and formations. That is why our nature can be changed in spite of Vivekananda's saying and Horace's adage and in spite of the conservative resistance of the subconscient, but it is a difficult job because the master mode of Nature is this obstinate repetition and recurrence. As for the things ...
... far the comparison between Savitri and the Divine Comedy. We may also remember that to have a sustained quality does not necessarily render a work superior to another which has ups and downs. Horace's dictum, "Even Homer sometimes nods", refers to the Iliad, but surely the epos of Achilles's wrath is greater than that of Odysseus's wanderings. There is a dazzling fire, there is a dizzying ...
... Besides, you broke my power of judgment on yesterday's poem which I thought was a triumph! Well, perhaps I shall consider it a triumph if I read it again after six months. I won't insist on Horace's rule that in order to judge poetry rightly that has been newly written, you must keep it in your desk unseen for ten years and then read it again and see what you then think of it! I give you ...
... order of words would not display much more license than "the extraordinary involution and confusion" of verbal arrangement which Patrick Maxwell has noted as leading yet to no obfuscation of sense in Horace's Odes, Book V, the first fifteen lines. To cut a long story short: Milton on the eve of Paradise Lost was quite ripe for the learnedly loaded, artistically complex and finished, Latinly cast ...
... Simonides and Hipponax, the former combining with satire a strong sense of ethics, the latter a bright active fancy. Gaius Lucilius, a poet, was the initiator of the Roman satirical tradition. Horace's satires showed a genial, playful and purposive character while the didactive element became dominant in the philosophical satires of Persius. The rhetorical satire attained its apogee in the hands ...
... good—but I can't say it is distinguished or beautiful like the poems you have written since. You needn't incinerate, but bury it in a drawer somewhere for the moment. Read it again after ten years (Horace's advice). What about the refrain? Refrain? Man alive, if all were like the refrain, I should say "Bury, bury—burn, burn." I have persistently forgotten to send you this letter. Can you give ...
... do you find the poem I am sending you? Does it deserve incineration? Sri Aurobindo: ... You needn't incinerate, but bury it in a drawer somewhere for the moment. Read it again after ten years (Horace's advice). NB: What about the refrain? Sri Aurobindo: Refrain? Man alive, if all were like the refrain, I should say "Bury, bury - burn, burn." 86 7.NB: J doubts that her poems have ...
... From earth escape stepping into the unknown Gleam The Ray white. I hope you will rind this satisfactory in spite of the two departures from your model. P.S. In Horace's line upon the eloquence and order, I have found that I dropped a word and truncated the hexameter. I have restored the full line. Page 215 January 7, 1935 Much more heartened ...
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