Parnassians : 19th-century French poets headed by Leconte de Lisle, who in reaction to the imprecisions of the Romantics, contributed to the anthology Le Parnasse Contemporain (l866) stressing restraint, objectivity, technical perfection, & precision.
... college, he began his literary career as a book-reviewer to the Bombay-based newspapers and magazines. At this time his father suddenly died. He dedicated to his father his first book titled Parnassians, a critical assessment of the work of H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, G.K. Chesterton and Thomas Hardy, whom he considered the four outstanding denizens of Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses. The Parsi ...
... left college, he made his literary debut with a group of poems marked by a piercing psychical and intellectual passion. Published about the same time, his volume of critical essays entitled Parnassians elided from H. G. Wells the prophetic remark: "This young man will go far." And he has gone far - farther than the celebrated English writer could have meant or expected. He has gone far on ...
... Karpasa in Prehistoric India : A Chronological and Cultural Clue 6.Life-Literature-Yoga: Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo 7.'Overhead Poetr': Poems with Sri Aurobindo's Comments 8.Parnassians 9.Poems by Amal Kiran and Nirodbaran with Sri Aurobindo's Comments 10.Problems of Ancient India 11.Some Talks at Pondicherry : Amal Kiran and Nirodbaran 12.Sri Aurobindo on S ...
... Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic BOOKS BY AMAL-KIRAN (K.D. SETHNA) Published Books. 1. The Parnassians (1923) 2. Artist Love (1925) 3. The Secret Splendour (1941) 4. Evolving India: Essays on Cultural Issues (1947) 5. The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo (1947,1974) 6. The Adventure of the Apocalypse (1949) ...
... 5.The Beginning of History for Israel 6.Life-Poetry-Yoga, Personal Letters, Vol. I 7.Life-Poetry-Yoga, Personal Letters, Vol. II 8.Life-Poetry-Yoga, Personal Letters, Vol. III 9.Parnassians 10."Two Loves" and "A Worthier Pen" — The Enigmas of Shakespeare's Sonnets 11.The English Language and the Indian Spirit: Correspondence between Kathleen Raine and K.D. Sethna 12.Indian ...
... A Centenary Tribute Part VI List of Publications List of Published Book 1. 1923 Parnassians (4 Essays) 2. 1941 The Secret Splendour , Bombay: Published by K.D. Sethna. 3. 1947 Evolving India : Essays on Cultural Iissues, Bombay: Hind Kitabs Limited. 4. 1947 The ...
... in college, he began his literary career as a book-reviewer to the Bombay-based newspapers and magazines. At this time his father suddenly died. He dedicated to his father his first book titled Parnassians, a critical assessment of the work of H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, G.K. Chesterton and Thomas Hardy, whom he considered the four outstanding denizens of Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses. The Parsi author ...
... separate, sometimes mingled, among the Latins the like commencement in the work of Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Chénier, Hugo, the intermediate artistic development of most of the main influences by the Parnassians, the like later turn towards the poetry of Mallarmé, Verlaine, D'Annunzio, stigmatised by some as the beginning of a decadence, give us a distinct view of the curve. In English poetry the threads ...
... his Divina Commedia? "Si che m'ha fatto per piu anni macro" -which means that his poem made him "lean through many a Page 1 year." If even a master-singer found that climbing Parnassian heights left hollows in his cheeks, what about less gifted folk? And the principal point is not how much you labour but what you produce thereby. Aureoled flowers grow on the peaks of paradise: ...
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