Ossa : a mountain of NE Thessaly in Greece (see Pelion).
... however intricately opulent or Page 3 massive, appears heavy and laboured. Poetry may mix Ormuz with Ind, but it must work with a hand that is born regal. Poetry may heap Pelion upon Ossa, but it must bring an energy intrinsically gigantic. In short, its designs, formed swiftly or slowly, must bear the look of having been executed with sovereign ease. That look, accompanying limpid effects ...
... were similarly seated on the editor of the Statesman and Mr. Narendranath Sen on Mr. N. N. Page 539 Ghose and Pandit Kaliprasanna Kabyabisharad were piled upon Mr. Sen like Pelion upon Ossa, and the editor of the Daily News were similarly treated; then if under this pressure these three jarring powers were to become suddenly unanimous and struck out an appeal to have this loving burden ...
... different spirits, and whether the defects which we see but do not and cannot weigh too closely in him, will not be fatal when not saved by his all-uplifting largeness. A giant can pile up Pelion and Ossa and make of it an unhewn chaotic stair to Olympus, but others would be better and more safely employed in cutting steps of marble or raising by music a ladder of sapphires and rubies to their higher ...
... feeling if not logically understanding the poem as a whole. What the present unintelligibles forget is both sides of the truth: they crush completely the poetic art by heaping a Pelion of inharmony on an Ossa of incoherence. Mistaken also in their extremism are those who, while preserving the metrical basis and avoiding verbal savagery as well as imaginative freakishness, yet object to any transcendence ...
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