Ibsen : Henrik (Johan) (1828-1906), Norwegian poet & playwright.
... resented, and there is indeed a touch of wrong-headedness in the importance Shaw attached to what he called the realistic and intellectual drama, the drama of social problems and their discussion. Ibsen and Strindberg were to Shaw more momentous dramatists than Shakespare because they challenged conventional values and dealt with situations that could occur in contemporary life, whereas Shakespeare... you married me and I you." It was the one time the old battering-ram was silenced. As Shakespeare's Hamlet would have put it: the engineer was hoist with his own petard. It is doubtful whether Ibsen and Strindberg will last as long as Shakespeare: it is certain that Shakespeare will outlast Shaw. But Shaw is perfectly correct in thinking himself superior to Shakespeare in intellectuality. And this ...
... since it began to serve the human imagination from its first grand epic exaggerations to the violences of modern romanticism and realism, from the high ages of Valmiki and Homer to the day of Hugo and Ibsen. The means matter, but less than the significance and the thing done and the power and beauty with which it expresses the dreams and truths of the human spirit. The whole question of the Indian artistic ...
... Unbound, a wonderfully revealing and prophetic poetic utterance as it is, lyric poetry of the future. As one enters comparatively the modern age one finds poets, including world-dramatists Ibsen, Shaw, Maeterlinck, O'Neill, generally involved in a predicament of the existentialist, grappling with the tragedy at the heart of things, with the age's Angst. The Dynasts of Hardy echoes the age's ...
... extension of the poet's own psychology. This peculiarity of the age is noticeable even in many creators whose aim is deliberately realistic or their method founded upon a minute psychological observation, Ibsen or Tolstoy and the Russian novelists. The self of the creator very visibly overshadows the work, is seen everywhere like the conscious self of Vedanta both containing and inhabiting all his creations ...
... and yet currents of intuition are found there side by side with it. The genius of the Latin is replete with intuition and that of the Celtic, the Slav, the Teuton with inspiration. If Shakespeare, Ibsen and Dostoevsky belong to the latter category, Virgil, Petrarch and Racine represent the former. Intuition and inspiration do not limit themselves, however, to particular countries or races, but the ...
... animal. Since then the situation seems to have worsened, not improved; for even as late as the enlightened nineteenth century, towards its end, we find a poignant picture, by the great dramatist Ibsen, of the social crisis of today, how the people, the masses, are not capable of recognizing their own secular good—not to speak of any higher spiritual welfare—and one who does or tries to do a really ...
... creative and mobile consciousness to the mass that a progressive society becomes possible. Page 512 × E.g. Ibsen in his drama, "An Enemy of the People". × There was first seen the drastic beginning of this phenomenon ...
... strong morning time illumined by the calm, large and steady blaze of Goethe's genius and the wandering fire of Heine, afterwards a long unlighted stillness. In the North here or there a solitary genius, Ibsen, Strindberg. Holland, another Teutonic country which developed an art of a considerable but almost wholly objective power, is mute in poetry. 1 It would almost seem that there is still something ...
... difficulties she used to put before me and she was eager to learn whatever I had to teach her. When she became engaged to a tall Apollo of a Swede, she would invite me in the mornings to talk to her on Ibsen or Tolstoy or some other literary celebrity and she would in the evenings amaze more her fiancé with her versatile knowledge. Inhabiting a human body she could not escape altogether "the thousand ...
... that women have remained helpless and weak. "But the world around has been slowly changing. The first great awakening was the French Revolution. Then, the 19th century gave us writers like Zola and Ibsen. Later came Shaw and many others who spoke against social evils and injustices. In Turkey, Kamal Ataturk freed women from the burkha. Indian history recounts the stories of many brave and illustrious ...
... Huta, 684H, 690, 753 Huxley, Aldous, 417, 423, 694 Hydari,SirAkbar,579,730 Hymn to Durga' (Durga Stotra), 298, 786 Hymns to the Mystic Fire, 455ff Ibsen, Henrik, 79 Ideal of Human Unity, The, 404, 470ff; the problem of 'collective man', 481; beyond group, community, nation to the human totality, 481; freedom and security, role of little nations ...
... However, one of his plays, The Hereditary Count , was attended by Emperor Wilhelm II, who liked it so much that he went to enjoy the next performance. It was at this time that Eckart’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt obtained an unprecedented success and became the most often performed play of the Hofbühne¸ the Court Theatre, of which the emperor was the protector. As a consequence the emperor co ...
... described as "a Drama of Life", there is the adventurous climbing up the slopes of Aspiration, and the sustained effort needed to reach the heights. It seems not unlike the climactic situation in Ibsen's Brand or in Tagore's The Child. In her pre-Pondicherry period the Mother had first made a painting she called "Ascent to the Truth" 3 and this painting was to inspire the Ashram children to ...
... mental operations were of a different character and colour. And in art itself there are different kinds of intuition. Shakespeare's seeing of life differs in its character and aims from Balzac's or Ibsen's, but the essential part of the process, that which makes it intuitive, is the same. The Buddhistic, the Vedantic seeing of things may be equally powerful starting-points for artistic creation, may ...
... Bengal or the Indian Ocean, it is these, and beyond them (but also comprehending them), it is something more elemental, more primordial, - the ultimate Existence itself! As the sea is to Ellidda in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, to C.R. Das and to Sri Aurobindo too, the sea is a symbol of romance, symbol of the siege and the constitutive resolution of contraries, a museum and power-house of infinite ...
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