Southey : Robert (1774-1843), English poet & writer, associated with Coleridge & Wordsworth, though his poetry has little in common with theirs.
... there are 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 ...
... struggling with a few lines. While one person breaks his head over a few lines, another composes three or four poems. That is fluency, not necessarily inspiration. Southey used to write like that, I believe, but you don't call Southey an inspired poet, do you? I cite all this to show that it is not primarily the silencing of the mind or the dynamic vital, but cases born with a wide opening somewhere ...
... very much he would not scruple to overpraise his poetry; but I think he considered my brother's poems to carry in them a fine promise. Binyon and Manmohan had almost the relations of Wordsworth and Southey in the first days, strongly admiring and stimulating each other.) Let me say then that my opinion was a personal one, perhaps born of brotherly intimacy—for if familiarity breeds contempt, fraternity ...
... life and light are dear! Many other quaint glimpses we have of him, not always showing him in an egoistic or humourless light. Once on talking of letter-writing and the care that men like Southey lavished on it he said that such was his horror of having his letters preserved, that in order to guard against it he always took pains to make them as bad and dull as possible! There is considerable ...
... us from getting close immediately. We are running neck and neck in the race to nonagenarianism. I was amazed at the long list of books you had ordered. And it is typical of the bibliophile such as Southey celebrates in the poem from which you have quoted two lines, that you should be happy I increased your list. Three books of mine are still missing because these are out of print: Sri Aurobindo - the ...
... because this is a public library." I I had to take him round the flat, show him my bedroom and my dining room to convince him that I was residing here and very privately re-living the life of Robert Southey: My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old. My never-failing friends are they, With whom I ...
... student's point of view. In India the students, besides taking down my notes, used to get notes of professors from Bombay, especially if they happened to be examiners. Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson . And my lecture was not in agreement with the notes in the book. So the students remarked that it was not at all like what was in the notes. I replied that I hadn't read them. In ...
... up____ The students at Baroda, besides taking my notes, used to get notes of other professors from Bombay, especially if they happened to be examiners. "Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson, Page 204 Sri Aurobindo as a professor in Baroda and my lecture was not in agreement with the Notes in the book. So the students remarked ...
... all.... What was surprising to me was that the students used to take down everything verbatim and mug it up. Such a thing would never have happened in England.... Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson and my lecture was not in agreement with the notes. So the students remarked that it was not at all like what was found in them. I replied that I had not read the notes — in any case ...
... England. There [at Baroda] the students besides taking my notes used to get notes of some professor from Bombay, especially if any of them was to be an examiner. "Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson . My lecture was not in agreement with the notes. So the students remarked that it was not at all like what was found in the notes. I replied: I have not read the notes – in any case... substance cannot die. The moment passed and all was as before; Only that 1 deathless memory I bore. ² In 1902 Sri Aurobindo was occupied in teaching French and English at the college. Southey's Life of Nelson and Burke's ¹ Alternate reading: its. ². Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), p. 138. Page 52 reflections ...
... ous as a professor". He had his sense of the text before him, he seized the meaning by direct intuitive grasp, and spoke as his mind and the moment directed him. Once while giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson he said things not in agreement with what was given in the Notes of the edition being used by the students. When they brought this to his attention, he replied that he hadn't looked ...
... student's point of view. The students at Baroda, besides taking my notes, used to get notes of other professors from Bombay, specially if he was an examiner.. Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson, and my lecture was not in agreement with the notes. So the students remarked that it was not at all like what was found in them. I, replied that I had Page 211 ...
... ... What was surprising to me was that the students used to take down everything verbatim and mug it up. Such a thing would never have happened in England.... Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson. My lecture was not in agreement with the notes. So the students 13. Sri K.M. Munshi, ex-governor of the Uttar Pradesh, who was one of the students of Sri Aurobindo at the ...
... mug it up. There at Baroda the students besides taking my notes used to get notes of some professor from Bombay, especially if any of them was to be an examiner. "Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson. My lecture was not in agreement with the notes. So the students remarked that it was not at all like what was found in the notes. I replied: 'I have not read the notes - in any case ...
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