Pegasus : winged horse, offspring of Poseidon & Medusa, companion of Bellerophon. The spring Hippocrene, sacred to the Muses, was made by a print of his hoof; it gave the gift of song to all who drank of it.
... fashion with a particular earthly stream. This stream is the river Hippocrene, the fountain of the Horse, and to account for its name we have a legend that it sprang from the hoof of the divine horse Pegasus; for he smote the rock with his hoof and the waters of inspiration gushed out where the mountain had been thus smitten. Was this legend merely a Greek fairy-tale or had it any special meaning? And... phenomenon, the birth of the waters of inspiration, have had a psychological meaning; it must have been an attempt to put into concrete figures certain psychological facts. We may note that the word Pegasus, if we transliterate it into the original Aryan phonetics, becomes Pājasa and is obviously connected with the Sanskrit pājas , which meant originally force, Page 92 movement, or sometimes... the divine Horse, and Indra Valahan, the Vedic slayer of Vala, the enemy who keeps for himself the Light. But this would take us beyond the limits of our subject. Nor does this interpretation of the Pegasus legend carry us any farther than to indicate the natural turn of imagination of the Ancients and the way in which they came to figure the stream of inspiration as an actual stream of flowing water ...
... unforgettable picture full of meaning he remains as he rides on horseback to his country's conferences. And to the symbolism we have read in the act, one more shade must be added. That horse is a Pegasus though without wings; for, if Nehru is no poet Hafting into fire and ether, he is surely a prose-writer with an inspired pace, ranging far and wide on terra firma, and his books have value as ...
... diverse forms of significant sound. If this mind masters the English poetical technique and is receptive to that gift of the Gods, inspiration, why should it not ride to perfection the English Pegasus? It is understandable that we do not often attempt the feat, since our own languages come more easily to us, but Yeats has definitely not said the last word—our poets shall have many beautiful words ...
... Adventures in Criticism Pegasus and "The White Horse" 1 It is often thought that to call G.K. Chesterton a poet is to mistake for the high and authentic light of inspiration mere rhetorical shades masquerading as poetic significances. But the fact is that in G.K.C. there is a genuine poet buried under the clever journalist. His mass of militant... his multifarious armoury; the too frequent thunder of his excursions on a ponderous-bodied though nimble-footed charger of prose style has led us to forget that on occasion he rides out on a more Pegasus-like hoof-stroke. In short, we fail to recognise that he has fought his way, though with many falls, into the kingdom of poetry with his Ballad of the White Horse. As a vehicle for narration ...
... College and quickly changing my apparel repaired to Chetwynd Court, but found them already drinking tea with the liberality of artists. "A cup of nectar" I cried "ere the bowl be empty!" "It seems that Pegasus is blind" said Wilson "or he would not see the drink of Gods in the brown tincture of tea-leaves and the chased bowls of Hephaestus in a common set of China." "If not the drink of Gods" I replied "it ...
... calmly in our uncertainty than to clutch at premature conclusions—but the West is progressive & will no longer suffer so austere an eclipse of its brilliancy. No such rein shall be put on the galloping Pegasus of its scholastic & scientific fancy. ...
... concluding "bear" is an embellishment, almost repeating as it does the sound of the bodkin's epithet; it may not be easy to substitute this quasi-homophone, but Shakespeare ought to have spurred his super-Pegasus to carry him over the difficulty. Often the impetuosity of a poem or its dazzling richness covers up such peccadilloes, and in blank verse, where the technique is a special one and factors like assonance ...
... very high and difficult function; it is his function to teach men to think clearly and purely. In order to effect that for mankind, to carry reason as far as that somewhat stumbling and hesitating Pegasus will go, he sacrifices all the bypaths of mental enjoyment, the shady alleys and the moonlit gardens of the soul, in order that he may walk in rare air and a cold sunlight, living highly and austerely ...
... 1910-1913 Essays Divine and Human The Sources of Poetry The swiftness of the muse has been embodied in the image of Pegasus, the heavenly horse of Greek legend; it was from the rapid beat of his hoofs on the rock that Hippocrene flowed. The waters of Poetry flow in a current or a torrent; where there is a pause or a denial, it is a sign of obstruction ...
... poets who use it have earned not only the popular suffrage, but the praise of the critical mind. Still the definitive verdict on their verse is that it is nothing more than an effective jog-trot of Pegasus, a pleasing canter or a showy gallop. It has great staying-power,—indeed there seems no reason why, once begun, it should not go on for ever,—it carries the poet easily over his ground, but it does ...
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