Kingsley : Charles (1819-75), one of the first Anglican churchmen to support Darwin’s theory; his writings influenced social development in Britain.
... lifted to climax after climax of epic and pastoral and satire. Where in Longfellow or Clough, the two most famous among the accentual hexametrists, is any burst of climaxes in an adequate medium? Even Kingsley who is better at construction and metre-management has mostly a tenuous rhythm: his meagre talent could not touch his constructive instinct to supreme issues. His constructive instinct itself was... dactyl was never consciously admitted as part of the technique: hence, though employed here and there, it could not be utilised to the top of its potentialities. Even in the hands of a poet finer than Kingsley, Clough or Longfellow, the movement lacks ease and power except for a few almost accidental steps. Here is a translation from the Iliad by George Meredith: Now, as when fire voracious... unrestricted and unjustified trochaic modulations in Clough that kill the soul of the hexameter rhythm in his verse. What makes Longfellow tame and feeble is the insensitive plethora of basic beats. Kingsley is spoiled by his thinness of inspiration, his instinctive skill as technician counterbalanced by his inanity as poet. All of them and many others like Meredith suffer to a more or less degree from ...
... action. Seen from another angle, it is a fresh rendering of the Perseus-Andromeda myth, linking Sri Aurobindo with other interpreters of the myth like Euripides and Ovid, Corneille and Kingsley. Unlike Kingsley, whose Andromeda is but "romantic tinsel", Sri Aurobindo has retained all the old beauty and poetry and sense of mystery of the Hellenic myth, but has served it all up with a modem flavour... and relevance and urgency. The theme is still the rescue of Andromeda from the sea-monster, but Sri Aurobindo's heroine is no passive helpless creature like the Andromeda of Euripides, Ovid and Kingsley, but a heroine in her own sovereign right of self-determined action. Paramount in her eyes are the laws of humanity and pity: these only she will acknowledge, these alone will guide her actions ...
... Homeric or Virgilian line on the principles of Classical quantity without attention to the natural English stress, he accepts the accentual hexameter as practised by Sou-they, Lockhart, Longfellow, Kingsley and Clough but adds 1 : "most unfortunately, many of the advocates of the 'accentual* against the 'quantitative hexameter'..have made a fatal mistake in maintaining that quantity (length, weight) ...
... better than Clough's; it has not the sing-song tameness of Longfellow, there is rhythm, there is resonance. But though the frame is correct and very presentable, there is nothing or little inside it. Kingsley has the trick of romantic language, romantic imagination and thinking, but he is not an original poet; the poetic value of his work is far inferior to Clough's or Longfellow's, it is not sound and ...
... in Bengali and other tongues. Is this book, then, one of which "love's labour's lost" must be said? By no means. There is in it a great deal of illuminating criticism on Longfellow, Clough and Kingsley. There are some extremely wise remarks on poetry, of which these are samples: Page 755 It is evident that a crowding or sparseness of consonants will make a great difference to the ...
... Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 722 Khanna, Ravindra, 690 Khaparde, G. S., 227, 269,272, 528 Kimberley, Lord, 37 Kingsford, D. H., 246, 305,307, 313 Kingsley, Charles, 128 Kipling, Rudyard, 12, 241 Kitchener, Lord, 205 Krebs, K. A., 572 Krishnaprem, Yogi (Ronald Nixon), 468 Langley, G. H., 752 Lawrence ...
... his nation's unfolding history. Or, again, a poetaster-laureate writes a foolish panegyric on a dead King, and a Byron answers with the gloriously entertaining satire, The Vision of Judgement; a Kingsley casually assails the convert Newman's integrity, and the latter in self-defence writes a classic spiritual autobiography, Apologia pro Vita Sua, wrung from the depths; or an egregious critic, William ...
... when he peered into the future of India. Mill, Carlyle or Herbert Spencer did not shed any light on his reasoning when he applied himself to the study of the problems in India. Hume, Froude, Kingsley or Freeman did not help him at all in taking a correct reading of events and their bearings. Neither Chatham nor Wilberforce nor even Mr. Gladstone stood by him with their enlightened statesmanship ...
... the most important surviving classical source of which is the fourth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses . Notable among modern retellings of the story are Corneille's An dromede (1650) and Charles Kingsley's Andromeda (1859), a poem in English hexameters with which Sri Aurobindo was familiar. Eric. Sri Aurobindo began work on this play in 1910, shortly after his arrival in Pondicherry, and ...
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