Phillips, Stephen : (1864-1915): he prepared for the civil service, but in 1885 joined his cousin F.R. Benson’s dramatic company at Wolverhampton & played various small parts until 1891. In 1890 a slender volume of verse was published at Oxford with the title Primavera, which contained contributions by him & by his cousin Laurence Binyon, Manmohan Ghose & other Oxford graduates. In 1894 he published Eremus, a long poem of loose structure in blank verse of a philosophical complexion. In 1896 appeared Christ in Hades, forming with a few other short pieces one of the slim paper-covered volumes of Elkin Matthews’s Shilling Garland. This poem caught the eye of the critics, & when it was followed by a collection of Poems in 1897 his position as a new poet of exceptional gifts was generally recognized. This volume contained a new edition of Christ in Hades, together with Marpessa, The Woman with the Dead Soul, The Wife, & shorter pieces, including To Milton, Blind. The new edition won the prize of £100 offered by the Academy newspaper for the best new book of its year, ran through half a dozen editions in two years, & established Phillips’s rank as poet, which was sustained by the publication, in the Nineteenth Century in 1898 of his poem Endymion.
... type. He was anything but practical. He was a dreamer and a visionary. A classmate of Laurence Binyon and a friend of Oscar Wilde, he was himself a poet of considerable merit. He, Binyon, Phillips (Stephen Phillips) and Cripps... brought out a book (of poetry) 6 in conjunction, which was well spoken of. "I dare say, my brother stimulated me greatly to poetry." 7 "Manmohan used to play the poet ...
... planes 51,58,317,338 rhythm in mystical poets 33 writing 103,215 Overmind 51 inspiration 200 Intuition 323 P pain 75,82 parame vyoman 271 Phillips, Stephen 284 poet Creator 164 poetic intelligence 69,103,201,231, 330,341 poetry. See also inspiration creative genius 213 criteria for highest 205 function of inspired ...
... 122; development of action, 122ff; Polydaon and Hitler, 127; development of Perseus-Andromeda myth, 127-28; union of Power and Pity, 129, 147 Phenomenon of Man, The, 443ff Phillips, Stephen, 32 Pillai, V.O. Chidambaram, 235, 266fn, 299, 300 Pinto "Udar", 579, 739 Piper, Raymond R, 20, 515 Plato, 48, 418, 441 Plotinus, 441 Poddar, Arabinda ...
... anywhere. Among English influences the most outstanding are, to my mind, Shakespeare, Milton, Keats and Stephen Phillips, along with something of Shelley and Coleridge. I cannot tell you much about it from that point of view; I did not draw consciously from any of the poets you mention except from Phillips. I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades before they were published and as I was just in the stage... even the poems collected in Ahana, not to mention Baji Prabhou. I don't know whether Swinburne is anywhere patent in your narratives: he probably does have something to do with Songs to Myrtilla. Stephen Phillips is the most direct influence in Urvasie and Love and Death. But as I have said in my essay on your blank verse he is assimilated into a stronger and more versatile genius, together with influences... narrative verse did not satisfy me. Page 221 One critic characterised Love and Death as an extraordinarily brilliant and exact reproduction of Keats: what do you say to that? I think Stephen Phillips had more to do with it. 7 July 1947 Page 222 ...
... asked the young man why he was not writing more poetry? "I dare say," acknowledged Sri Aurobindo, "my brother stimulated me greatly to write poetry." Stephen Phillips, a Victorian poet, made a considerable impression on Sri Aurobindo. Phillips (1868-1915), also a playwright and actor, was a cousin of Binyon's and a very close friend of Manmohan's. The three of them along with Arthur Cripps "who... knew Shakespeare and Milton to the full. "I read Shelley a great deal and took an intense pleasure in some of Coleridge's poetry." Keats too, specially his Hyperion. Among the Victorian poets, Stephen Phillips made a considerable impression on him. "I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades, before they were published and as I was just in the stage of formation then — at the age of seventeen — they made ...
... that. That is why their English is so flat and lifeless and gives the impression that they have learned English. A good writer will always avoid stock expressions and vary the usages. (Smiling) Stephen Phillips, the poet, said that the English language is like a woman who will only love if you take liberties with her. (Laughter. After a pause) Sir Dinshaw Wacha sent a book here he had written. I found ...
... a use of poetic-sounding language to cover up mere fancifulness. One of the worst lines of poetry, to Murry's mind, is this from Stephen Phillips's Marpessa: Page 101 The mystic yearning of the garden wet... Let us reflect on the verse. Is Phillips indeed pretentious? The feeling that he records seems to have nothing false in it. When a garden is wet with either dew or rain,... full context of Phillips's passage is a little colourless, missing the focal point the vision requires. Perhaps Phillips, for all the beauty of his passage, is on the whole less poetic in substance than Proust, even less bold in his mystical evocation, but he does manage to ring true in that line. Page 104 We may dismiss Murry's charge. Ladies and gentlemen, Phillips is acquitted. The... than the visible universe. There is also the piquant felicity of matching a sound with a scent. Phillips, if his line is taken by itself, has no preparatory finesse: he just blurts out that the wet garden is mystically yearning. Proust's account is more delicately, more skilfully tuned: Phillips's is more matter-of-fact in its mysticism, taking miraculous things for granted. This mode of expression ...
... imaginative sometimes.'" Sri Aurobindo's narration sent the others into gales of laughter. Stephen Phillips, the poet, was also a very good friend of Mano's. "My brother Manmohan used to say," Sri Aurobindo recounted one day while on the topic of materialization, "he had heard from Stephen Phillips that the latter's mother visited him when she was on her deathbed at a distant place." A twinkle ...
... French; but this language is constantly changing and escaping from boundaries and previously fixed rules and its character and style, you might almost say, is whatever the writer likes to make it, Stephen Phillips once said of it in a libertine image that the English language is like a woman who will not love you unless you take liberties with her." 1 1. The Future ...
... direct physiological phrase "hot digestion". Then there is the word "business" with its prosaic commercial associations. Stephen Phillips, a poet with whom Sri Aurobindo had some acquaintance in his college days at Cambridge because Sri Aurobindo's brother Manmohan and Phillips were great chums, brings it in when he talks of the underworld, Hades, during Christ's alleged brief visit to that place of... add, Italian. Even an alexandrine in English can be made immortal poetry with monosyllables. Already the third line of the citation from Lear was an alexandrine. Here is another from a sonnet of Phillip Sydney's in which the poet, casting about for matter to communicate to his beloved and unable to do anything genuine, ends with an intense guiding word from the Muse: Fool, said my Muse to me, ...
... of a born poet. Manmohan had already attracted some attention as a poet. He was on friendly terms with his class-mate, Laurence Binyon, later to become a well-known literary figure, and with Stephen Phillips, the notable poet. He was also familiar with the famous Oscar Wilde. Sri Aurobindo when he was seventeen, translated from Greek a poem entitled 'Hecuba' and Binyon who happened to read it went... Drewett decided to migrate to Australia, and left the three brothers in charge of his mother. The old lady also decided to leave Manchester and move to London where she took lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush. When Sri Aurobindo came to London he had just completed his twelfth year. There is a painting by a well-known artist, Promode Chatterjee, from a photograph of Sri Aurobindo ...
... French; but this language is constantly changing and escaping from boundaries and previously fixed rules and its character and style, you might almost say, is whatever the writer likes to make it. Stephen Phillips once said of it in a libertine image that the English language is like a woman who will not love you unless you take liberties with her.... As for "aspire for", it may be less correct than ...
... blank verse. Both Love and Death and Urvasie bear traces of the influence of Stephen Phillips's Christ in Hades and Marpessa. During his Cambridge days Sri Aurobindo had seen Christ in Hades in manuscript — a memorable and fecundating event. Marpessa got even more under his skin. Stephen Phillips is at present a forgotten name because he could not keep up his early inspiration and... realised that in using a difficult instrument like blank verse the bom poet has to be an alert artist as well. Sri Aurobindo was stirred by Phillips's poetic as well as artistic qualities and assimilated them into his manifold genius. Where he surpasses Phillips is in energy and variety. His mind is more virile and that virile strength is not stark force alone: it has a suppleness which adapts itself ...
... Pan Books, 1982 Horgan, John: Rational Mysticism , Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003 — The End of Science , Broadway Books, 1997 — The Undiscovered Mind , The Free Press, 1999 Johnson, Phillip E.: The Wedge of Truth , InterVarsity Press, 2000 King, Francis, and others: The Rebirth of Magic , Corgi Books, 1982 Koestler, Arthur: The Ghost in the Machine , Arkana, 1989 Kuhn, Thomas... 1997 Amzallag, Gérard Nissim: La Raison malmenée , CNRS Editions, 2002 — L’Homme végétal , Albin Michel, 2003 Arsac, Jacques: La science et le sens de la vie , Fayard, 1993 Baxter, Stephen: Revolutions in the Earth , Phoenix, 2003 Bassler, Moritz, and others (ed.): Mystique, mysticisme et modernité , PUS, 1998 Barash, David: Sociobiology – The Whisperings Within , Fontana/Collins... (HUP), 2006 Gjertsen, Derek: Science and Philosophy – Past and Present , Penguin Books, 1989 Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas: The Occult Roots of Nazism , New York University Press, 1994 Gould, Stephen Jay: Punctuated Equilibrium , The Belknap Press (HUP), 2007 — Rocks of Ages , Ballantine Books, 1999 Grafen, Alan, and others (ed.): Richard Dawkins , Oxford University Press, 2006 Greenspan ...
... unMiltonic. However, Sri Aurobindo's early blank verse which assimilates several influences into a varied vigorous originality mingles Paradise Lost most with the chief immediate influence - Stephen Phillips's Christ in Hades and Marpessa - and the principal background influence - Kalidasa's Vicramorvasie. And this blank verse is of particular interest because of a certain question raised by... may be tempted to look at some lines in Paradise Lost which Milton's nephew Edward Phillips has marked as written a number of years earlier when the poem was tentatively projected not as an epic but as a tragedy. Aubrey's Memoir of Milton gives precision to Phillips's piece of information by reporting Phillips himself as putting those lines 15 or 16 years before the epic commenced. This takes ...
... French; but this language is constantly changing and escaping from boundaries and previously fixed rules and its character and style, you might almost say, is whatever the writer likes to make it. Stephen Phillips once said of it in a libertine image that the English language is like a woman who will not love you unless you take liberties with her. As for the changeableness, it is obvious in recent violences... is incorrect, but a deliberate incorrectness, a violence purposely done to the language in order to produce a poetic effect. The English language, unlike the French and some others, likes, as Stephen Phillips used to say, to have liberties taken with it. But, of course, before one can take these liberties, one must be a master of the language—and, in this case, of the Latin also. The word "reboant" ...
... and Sri Aurobindo deserve our notice. When I asked Sri Aurobindo in 1933 about influences of other poets on his own work, the first name he mentioned, after speaking of his older contemporary Stephen Phillips, in relation to Love and Death, was Milton. He wrote: "I dare say some influence of most of the great English poets and of others also, not English, can be traced in my poetry - I can myself ...
... man is not known to be living far away, people mistake his appearance for actual physical presence. There are many such well-attested cases. My brother Manmohan used to say he had heard from Stephen Phillips that the latter's mother visited him when she was on her death-bed at a distant place. But my brother was a poet, you must remember —very imaginative. And, moreover, he was a friend of Oscar Wilde ...
... and the rustle of Nature. "Elsewhere there are many pleasant lines of a derivative nature and it is interesting to find traces of the influence of that Yellow Book character, the poet Stephen Phillips, who was at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. The Tennysonian influence is still stronger: And lightning 'twixt the eyes intolerable Like heaven s vast eagle all that blackness swept... especially from the Idylls of the King, is the strongest strikes one as too sweeping. There is an audacious Elizabethan temper in this blank verse, and Milton, Keats , Arnold and the finest of Stephen Phillips are there as general influences much more than Tennyson. Least of all is the mood or the manner of the Idylls dominant. The early Tennyson had great lyrical and descriptive power, but the ...
... wrote by a sense of the sound. I am not a prosodist like X. NIRODBARAN: Had your brother Manmohan already become a poet when you started writing? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. He, Laurence Binyon, Stephen Phillips and Arthur Cripps, who did not come to much in poetry afterwards, brought out a book in conjunction. It was well spoken of. I dare say my brother stimulated me greatly to write poetry. NIRODBARAN: ...
... render him non-Tennysonian. Consider this passage of Tennyson's in the middle of the Enid-story: 1 We may note, in passing, that C.R.M. is wrongly informed about Stephen Phillips having been at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. Phillips was in touch with the group at Cambridge and was a personal friend of Sri Aurobindo's elder brother, Manomohan Ghose, who knew also Oscar Wilde and had Laurence Binyon... Time and the rustle of Nature. "Elsewhere there are many pleasant lines of a derivative nature and it is interesting to find traces of the influence of that Yellow Book character, the poet Stephen Phillips, who was at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. The Tennysonian influence is stronger: * First published in Mother India, September 3, 1949, except for the change of a few quotations in order... is the strongest—especially from the Idylls of the King— strikes one as too sweeping. There is an audacious Elizabethan temper in this blank verse, and Milton, Keats, Arnold and the finest of Stephen Phillips are there as general influences much more than Tennyson. 1 Least of all is the mood or the manner of the Idylls dominant. The early Tennyson had great lyrical and descriptive power, but the ...
... of renown, Thompson, Masefield, Hardy, do not occur at all or only in a passing allusion. But still the book deals among contemporary poets with Tagore, A. E. and Yeats, among recent poets with Stephen Phillips, Meredith, Carpenter, great names all of them, not to speak of lesser writers. This little book with its 135 short pages is almost too small a pedestal for the figures it has to support, not, ...
... result of his avowedly avoiding medical jargon. Phillips is on better ground in pointing to some fifty words that have nothing to do with medicine but are shared by the two books attributed to Luke and not found elsewhere in the New Testament. Brown also attends to several linguistic turns to suggest the same authorship of the two works. As, unlike Phillips, he goes into detail we may pick out some outstanding... attributing Acts to Luke, how is it that the late legend of c. 160-180 A.D. still wins support? The answer is: "On literary grounds." But let us see whether the grounds are decisive. B. Phillips 17 tries to cash in on "the same doctor's precision in the use of medical language" in Luke and Acts. But this statement has, in the first place, for its background what, to say the least, is, as... - a phrase we shall be struck by an important divergence. Stendahl 28 points out: "The title Son of Man [for Jesus], used frequently in Luke, is used only once in Acts, at the death of the martyr Stephen, when he is granted a vision of the Lord in glory." The number of times in Luke is twenty-five. 29 And in Acts it has a singularity stressed by Fitzmyer: 30 "Aside from John 12:34 this is the only ...
... technical excellence as the only merits of my uninspired poetry. It is otherwise with Stephen Phillips: I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades, the latter in typescript, shortly before I left England and they aroused my admiration and made a considerable impression on me. I read recently a reference to Phillips as a forgotten poet, but if that includes these two poems I must consider the oblivion... perhaps they may come under his general remark that this part of my work lacks the glow and concentration of true inspired poetry and his further judgment classing it with the works of Watson and Stephen Phillips and other writers belonging to the decline of romantic poetry. I know nothing about Watson's work except for one or two short pieces met by chance; if I were to judge from them, I would have... poems collected in Ahana, not to mention Baji Prabhou. I don't know whether Swinburne is anywhere patent in your narratives: he probably does have something to do with Songs to Myrtilla. Stephen Phillips is the most direct influence in Urvasie and Love and Death. But as I have said in my essay on your blank verse he is assimilated into a stronger and more versatile genius, together with ...
... excellence as the only merits of my uninspired poetry. It is otherwise with Stephen Phillips: I read Marpessa and Christ in Hades , the latter Page 348 in typescript, shortly before I left England and they aroused my admiration and made a considerable impression on me. I read recently a reference to Phillips as a forgotten poet, but if that includes these two poems I must consider the... perhaps they may come under his general remark that this part of my work lacks the glow and concentration of true inspired poetry and his further judgment classing it with the works of Watson and Stephen Phillips and other writers belonging to the decline of romantic poetry. I know nothing about Watson's work except for one or two short pieces met by chance; if I were to judge from them, I would have to ...
... neutral source were grist to the mill of several Christian intellectuals who accepted some version of evolution but not the materialistic dogma buttressing Darwinism. Initially the most vocal one was Phillip Johnson, professor of law and Christian convert, who published Darwin on Trial in 1991. The reader may remember that, by then, the sociobiologists Edward Wilson and Richard Dawkins had published... against scientific materialism, or as he put it “to split the foundations of naturalism” by “the wedge of truth” (title of one of his books) – Christian truth, that is. He became referred to as ‘Phillip “the Wedge” Johnson’. He and his like-minded crusaders saw themselves as defenders of Western civilization, “the normative legacy of Judeo-Christian ethics”. From a pamphlet, known as “the Wedge document”... but also of the possibility of scientific evidence for design has done untold damage to the normative legacy of Judeo-Christian ethics. A world without design is a world without meaning.” 19 And Phillip “the Wedge” Johnson writes: “If reason is to be a reliable guide, it must be grounded in a foundation that is more fundamental than logic. Instrumental reason is not enough. That is why the fear of ...
... incorrect, but a deliberate incorrectness, a violence purposely done to the language in order to produce a poetic effect. The English language, unlike the French and some others, likes, as Stephen Phillips used to say, to have liberties taken with it. But, of course, before one can take these liberties, one must be a master of the language, - and, in this case, of the Latin also" (1931). * ...
... activity continued when he went to Cambridge, and indeed throughout his life. His brother Manmohan was a classmate of Laurence Binyon and a friend of Oscar Wilde. He was also very intimate with Stephen Phillips, and was himself a promising poet, having written verses which were published from Oxford in a collection entitled Primavera . It is likely that, apart from Aurobindo's own classical studies... Aurobindo, Manmohan and Benoybhushan came to stay in London, Mrs. Drewett took lodgings for them at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, and stayed with them there. During his six years stay in London, Aurobindo lived at three or four different places. All the brothers stayed at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue from September 1884 to July 1887. Then, after a holiday at Hastings, Aurobindo and Benoybhushan... October 1892. After October 1892 he stayed at 6, Burlington Road, Bays-water, London. This place is now known as 68, St. Stephen's Gardens.¹ Aurobindo left for India in January 1893. An incident reported by Sri Aurobindo gives us the reason for changing his residence from 49, St. Stephen's Avenue to 128, Cromwell Road. Mrs. Drewett was a pious Christian and every day there used to be family prayers. Passages ...
... concerned the new age is not yet. It is with Sāvitrī that the new age may be said to have arrived. Among the precursors of this new age may be counted Whitman, Carpenter, Yeats, A. E. Meredith, Stephen Phillips, Tagore in whose works one can see clear indications of the new spirit and experiments with many forms of poetic expression. The nature of this change may be said to consist in the deepening and... them, a perception of the supra-rational and a tendency to concretise, to objectivise, so to say, inner, states or spiritual experiences. Among these poets may be counted C.Day Lewis, George Barker, Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, Peter Yeats, Walter Alien, Edith Sitwell, David Gascoyne, J.A.Chadwic alias Arjava, K.D.Sethna, Sigfried Sasson, Herbert Read, to give only a few names out of the many. Of... integral spirit climbs The dark in light for ever". Live you by love confined The spirit even though surrounded by darkness ascends to the heights of inner life "in light for ever". Stephen Spender also gives us remarkable touches of this in- ward subjective turn and of his perception of the worlds that are subliminal. Dissatisfied with the present European civilisation and condemning ...
... Bottomley as the most astonishing creator of the poetic drama since the seventeenth century. Poor Stephen Phillips with his Paolo and Francesca and Herod seemed quite forgotten; but that did not matter, for it is the nature of enthusiasm to forget rivals and, even if the critics had wanted to be just, Phillips would not have occurred to them, so completely has the "ripple of oblivion" gone over Page ...
... writing poetry in earnest. There was the catalytic effect of Manomohan's association on his younger brother, and there was Manomohan's friend and class-mate, Laurence Binyon. Manomohan, Binyon, Stephen Phillips and Arthur Cripps were to collaborate on Primavera, a collection of poems, that came out in 1890. Having first experimented on Greek and Latin verses, Sri Aurobindo turned a passage from the... Congregation Church and emigrated to Australia with his wife, leaving the three boys in charge of his mother. Presently old Mrs. Drewett took lodgings for the Ghose brothers in London at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush. Sri Aurobindo was admitted to St. Paul's School in September 1884 and remained there till December 1889. At the time of admission, the Head Master, Dr. Walker... Sri Aurobindo — Manchester —1883 classes of the school. At first Mrs. Drewett, who had taken lodgings for them, was with the boys in London, for St. Paul's was but a day school. At the St. Stephen's Avenue house, the old lady, who was pious Christian, used to have passages from the Bible read at prayer time. The boys were expected to participate in all this, and Benoy Bhushan often conducted ...
... at last to be . approaching the secret of the utterance of profounder truth with its right magic of speech and rhythm."* * This was written in the middle of 1918, when Whitman, Meredith and Stephen Phillips were recent and Carpenter, AE and Yeats were contemporary. Page 148 Yes, Sri Aurobindo has eyes wide-open to the defects of the English Romantics who were singers of a complex ...
... 12: Of Genes, Genetics and Genomes There’s always a danger that people think that because you have a Nobel Prize in something, you know something about other things. William Phillips (Nobel Prize in Physics 1997) From Complexity to Perplexity Physically speaking, genes are sequences of the DNA molecules which constitute the chromosomes in a cell’s nucleus. Functionally... our time [Crick’s central dogma] is that inheritance is solely through DNA.” 25 If this is wrong, what is then the role of the genes, of DNA, in the unfolding event of terrestrial evolution? As Stephen Gould put it: “The DNA does not determine a species, it is the record of a species.” In other words: “Gene differences do not cause evolutionary changes in populations, they register those changes... contents of the cell find their necessary information.” In the words of Denis Noble, the genes “are read by proteins called RNA which are under the control of the cell.” This, in its turn, reminds us of Stephen Gould’s formulation: “The DNA does not determine a species, it is the record of a species.” In other words: “Gene differences do not cause evolutionary changes in populations, they register those changes ...
... incorrect, but a deliberate incorrectness, a violence purposely done to the language in order to produce a poetic effect. The English language, unlike the French and some others, likes, as Stephen Phillips used to say, to have liberties Page 191 taken with it. But, of course, before one can take these liberties, one must be a master of the language, — and, in this case, of ...
... book. Page 121 "Elsewhere there are many pleasant lines of a derivative nature and it is interesting to find traces of the influence of that Yellow Book character, the poet Stephen Phillips, who was at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. The Tennysonian influence is stronger: And lightning 'twixt the eyes intolerable Like heaven's vast eagle all that blackness swept Down... English: An Anthology and a Credo, partly Page 142 to refute another critic, Buddhadeva Bose. In The Concise Encyclopaedia of English and American Poets and Poetry, edited by Stephen Spender and Donald Hall (1963), Bose levelled in effect the charge of rootlessness, incompetence and mediocrity against the sort of work Mr. Lal favours and practises. Bose's thesis was: "the best ...
... write poetry by following the sound. I am not a prosodist like X. Disciple : Had Mono Mohan already become a poet while in England. Sri Aurobindo : Yes , he, Lawrence Binyon, Stephen Phillips were all poets. But he did not come to very much, though he brought out a book – Prima Vera – in conjunction with others like Binyon and it was well spoken of. But I dare say my brother stimulated ...
... cannot really be known except when it is read in the original language. "Supplement, SABCL, Vol. 27, p. 148. 12 Perhaps Manmohan Ghose was thinking of the poems of Meredith, Swinburne and Stephen Phillips. Sri Aurobindo himself has recognised the influence of these poets on his early poetic formation. He even says that the after-effects of Meredith's Ascent to Earth of the Daughter of Hades "are ...
... it is incorrect, but a deliberate incorrectness, a violence purposely done to the language in order to produce a poetic effect. The English language, unlike the French and some other, likes, as Stephen Phillips used to say, to have liberties taken with it. But, of course, before one can take these liberties one must be a master of the language—and, in this case, of the Latin also." (1931) Apropos of ...
... subject, can we rightly disapprove of Chaucer or Shakespeare writing of Troilus and Cressida or Keats choosing to write of the fall of Hyperion or, on a smaller though not poetically inferior scale, Stephen Phillips conjuring up the story of Marpessa, Idas and Apollo? In our own day, Kazantzakis has written at a gigantic length (33,333 lines) a sequel to the Odyssey and in a form loosely reminiscent of Homer's ...
... blank verse has failed to spring alive in most hands. We do not run across a Milton or a Keats in every century. An Arnold may triumph in a certain vein in a piece like Sohrab and Rustum, a Stephen Phillips (unfortunately a forgotten voice now) may draw forth an exquisite in-toned somewhat novel music in his Marpessa, but no poet with an authentic and sustained blank-verse soul has come after the ...
... said that, although Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa was an earlier work and the more brilliant, Kumarasambhava was more deep and mature. Or the conversation skirted casually around Laurence Binyon, Stephen Phillips, Robert Bridges, Oscar Wilde, Manomohan Ghose, Bharati Sarabhai, the Hexameter, and the clue to it that a Cambridge friend, Ferrar, gave. Was Blake greater than Shakespeare? After Milton, what ...
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