Landor : Walter Savage (1775-1864), English author & poet.
... Page 251 reaches to the highest values of poetic expression. There can be also a compact or a stringent bareness—the kind of style deliberately aimed at by Landor; 1 but this can be very stiff and stilted as Landor is in his more ambitious attempts— although he did magnificent things sometimes, like his lines on Rose Aylmer; you can see there how emotion itself can gain by a spare austerity... inspired faithfulness to the law of perfection in that kind. That needs some explanation, perhaps; but I have here perforce to put a dash and finish. ____________________ 1. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), an English writer and poet. Page 252 October 9, 1932 I said that Aeschylus like Milton was austere au fond [at bottom]—there is as in Dante a high serious restrained ...
... or lovely bareness which reaches to the highest values of poetic expression. There can be also a compact or a stringent bareness—the kind of style deliberately aimed at by Landor; but this can be very stiff and stilted as Landor is in his more ambitious attempts—although he did magnificent things sometimes, like his lines on Rose Aylmer,—you can see there how emotion itself can gain by a spare austerity ...
... o'er his head, but cannot break his sleep. The theme of the Fire-worshippers has attracted several English poets. In the hills of Persia they were known in Moslem times as Guebres or Gebirs, and Landor has a long poem on one of them. Moore has versified a story about a Fire-worshipper who was hounded by the fanatics of Allah, and in his poem are words that can apply not only to the Zarathustrian ...
... on its themes by expressing them in such a way that the expression gets imprinted indelibly on the human mind : it eternises for all future a happening or an object of the present or the past. As Landor says : Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives, Alcestis rises from the shades; Verse calls them forth : 'tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids. Shakespeare in several ...
... on its themes by expressing them in such a way that the expression gets imprinted indelibly on the human mind: it eternises for all future a happening or an object of the present or the past. As Landor says: Past ruin'd Ilion, Helen lives, Alcestis rises from the shades; Verse calls them forth: 'tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids. Shakespeare in ...
... 213 Keats 18,197,336 knowledge Agni and 306 lustrous lid and 36,37,311 Savitri full of 208 Transcendent 248 Kundalirti 116 Kyd 216 L Lal, P. 125 Landor 166 laya 254 Lewis, C. Day 258 life force. See also vital all-effecting 273 horses 114,302 in Savitri 285 Page 375 inspiration ...
... on its themes by expressing them in such a way that the expression gets imprinted indelibly on the human mind: it eternises for all future a happening or an object of the present or the past. As Landor says: Past ruin'd Ilion, Helen lives, Alcestis rises from the shades; Verse calls them forth: 'tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids. Shakespeare in several ...
... different categories, some with a carefully rehearsed wit and the others with a spontaneously produced one. Sheridan himself generally belonged to the first type while Sydney Smith, whom Walter Savage Landor described as "humour's pink primate", belonged to the second one. Their attitudes towards the quality of which they were both briliant possessors were indeed antipodean. According to Smith, the best ...
... two writers who cannot Page 134 be classed, Smart & Beattie. Last come the first nineteenth century poets, who published their earliest work in 1798-1800, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Landor & Campbell. School of Natural Description The first to break away from Pope were Thomson & Dyer. The original departures made by their school were as follows. (1) In subject-matter an almost ...
... gods of his wives".—Ed. × The result is bound to be like Landor's rewriting of Milton—very good Landor but very bad Milton. × Yea, thou shalt be forgotten like spilt wine, Except these kisses of my ...
... its themes by expressing them in such a way that the expression gets imprinted indelibly on the human mind: it eternises for all future an occurrence or an object of the present or the past. As Landor says: Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives, Alcestis rises from the shades; Verse calls them forth: 'tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids. Shakespeare in several places in ...
... thesis of Shirnaz Sethna on Blake and Zoroaster is bound to be an original contribution. The Fire-worshippers attracted several Romantic poets - Byron in Giaour, Moore in a part of L olla Rookh and Landor in Gebir. I shouldn't be surprised if Blake's preoccupation with "fires" had a Zoroastrian touch somewhere. Yes, the word I couldn't quite make out must be "commander". As for seeing a Tyger ...
... like A System of National Education, The Brain of India, The National Value of Art and The Ideal of the Karmayogin. Page 337 In some of the later issues appeared a group of Landor-like Conversations of the Dead - Dinshaw, Perizade; Turiu, Uriu; Two Souls in Pitri-Lok. In the last of these "conversations", Sri Aurobindo makes the Souls in Pitri-Lok say that, since the sorrows ...
... marked manner the appeal of melodic or harmonic recurrence which is essential to all poetic movement. Perhaps no better illustration of the complete lyric in a brief compass can be offered than Landor's two-stanza'd Rose Aylmer : Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom... touch of thoughtful uplifted emotion, which is a typical Miltonism, in the word "consecrate" meaning "to set apart perpetually for sacred uses". Of course the epic pitch of expression is wanting in Landor's lyric of love's wakeful night-vigil, but enough dignity is present to make us perceive that this kind of lyricism, comparable in several ways to the song of night's "wakeful bird", could be the ...
... whereas over-emphasis and over-statement always bring in falsity. Who would think of censuring out of hand a prose style like Sir Thomas Browne's, Jeremy Taylor's, Donne's, Gibbon's, De Quincy's, Landor's, Car-lyle's, Ruskin's, Meredith's, Henry James's, Chesterton's, Charles Morgan's, Sir Winston Churchill's? These very names — three of them contemporary — should make one hesitate also to ...
... articulation. The departures may be less near in certain respects to those commonly made but they are in keeping with the essence of the latter and stem from the same principle as they. In the lines from Landor's Rose Aylmer— A night of memories and signs I consecrate to thee— "the word 'consecrate'," say the authors of Understanding Poetry? "is accented in ordinary usage on the first ...
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