Tasso : Torquato (1544-95), Italian poet famed as author of Jerusalem Delivered.
... attempts show the self-consciousness thatbesets all literary revivals" and "any self-conscious bookish- ness proves particularly deadly" when the half-conscious dream-levels have to find utterance. "In Tasso, or Spenser, or . Sidney's Arcadia there is a sickly taint of the factitious, of pastiche.... Even Ariosto, who shields himself behind a mocker's grin, with his interminable necromancers and magic... type"; 14 yet for him the speci- Page 49 fically Romantic remains a certain sight and sensibility and speech of the vital energy such as we find amongst the Elizabethans. Even Tasso and Ariosto whom Lucas criticises are not really Classical: they are Romantic but quasi-Romantic and open to criticism because something in the Italian spirit mingling with the Graeco-Roman cannot ... it seized upon the romantic life-motive, the meeting-place of the Teuton and the Celt, we see it losing entirely the mystically sentimental Celtic element, Italianising it into the sensuous-ness of Tasso, and Italianising the rest into an intellectualised, a half imaginative, half satiric play with the superficial motives of romance, - the inevitable turn of the Italianised Roman spirit." Wherever ...
... man is capable to perform', be raised to the utmost pitch of splendour." Again and again an attempt was made in Renaissance Europe and especially Italy to accomplish the perfect epic. We mark it in Tasso no less than in his predecessors. But they fall short of entire success. Page 134 Milton, with a poetic gift surpassing theirs, inherited their dream and, as Prince states it, "brought... tree - so that he might rise both verbally and conceptually ... to the highth of this great argument... We may, however, note that none of the Renaissance poets - neither the Italian Tasso who wrote Gerusalemme Liberata, the epic of the Crusades, nor the Portuguese Camoës who penned Os Luciados, the epic of Vasco de Gama and Portuguese colonisation in the East - raised so dense an ...
... Since then there have been Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, but not a second Shakespeare or Milton. Dante and Boccaccio came successively: since then there have been Berni, Boiardo, Alfieri, Tasso, but not a second Dante or Boccaccio. Such men come rarely in the lapse of centuries. Greece alone has presented the world an unbroken succession of supreme geniuses. There is nothing to prevent us ...
... tissues, the sweetly intense severity of Dante thrilled and toned his nerves - and, in addition to these formative forces, Page 57 there were the diverse poetic qualities brought by Tasso and Ariosto and Camoes and all other continental writers who had essayed the epic strain in one manner or another, in long stretches or short. The Hebrew Prophets and the Christian Apostles were ...
... it seized upon the romantic life-motive, the meeting-place of the Teuton and the Celt, we see it losing entirely the mystically sentimental Celtic element, Italianising it into the sensuousness of Tasso, and Italianising the rest into an intellectualised, a half imaginative, half satiric play with the superficial motives of romance,—the inevitable turn of the Italianised Roman spirit. On the other ...
... several pundits and he had the inborn poetic faculty. PURANI: Besides, he was a linguist; he knew many European languages. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh yes! You can see the influence of Homer, Virgil and Tasso in his writings. DR. MANILAL: I asked Nirod if he was having experiences. He said, "No, my work is now in the physical." I asked, "What about mind and vital?" "Oh, all that is finished!" "So it will ...
... Swinburne, Algernon Charles 9 Synthesis of Yoga, The 20, 24, 25, 210, 283, 293-295,347.359,400 Tagore, Rabindranath 3-5, 13, 17, 19, 47, Tasso 381,383 Tate, Allen 314, 366,390-392, 414, 419 Tennyson, Alfred Lord 315, 344, 345, 396, Thompson, Francis 270,311 Thought the Paraclete 42, 321 ...
... these Not skilled nor studious, higher argument Remains... He has a theme better in its own way and for his particular purpose than the themes of Homer and Virgil, of Ariosto and Tasso. Milton's ostensible aim is to "assert Eternal Providence,/And justify the ways of God to men." It is almost a theological aim; and he would therefore try to effect a marriage of theology and epic ...
... Of the European epic poets between Dante and Milton, two Italians, Ariosto andTasso, and the Portuguese, Camoens, stand rather in the forefront. Camoens's Os Lusiadas preceded by a few years Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, and was itself preceded by about sixty years by Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. There is more of the Aeneid than of the Commedia in these epics of the Renaissance. They ...
... habit of mind. The impression we get is that thoughts are being breathed into us, expressions dictated, the whole poured in from outside; the saints who spoke to Joan of Arc, the daemon of Socrates, Tasso's familiar, the Angel Gabriel dictating the Koran to Mahomet are only exaggerated developments of this impression due to an epileptic, maniac or excited state of the mind; and this, as I have already ...
... Keats' Hyperion (unfinished) are the two chief epics. In Sanskrit Mahabharat, Ramayan, Kalidasa's Kumar Sambhav, Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya. In Bengali Meghnadbodh. In Italian Dante's Divine Comedy and Tasso's (I have forgotten the name for the moment 138 ) are in the epic cast. In Greek of course Homer, in Latin Virgil. There are other poems which attempt the epic style, but are not among the masterpieces ...
... Hyperion (unfinished) are the two chief epics. In Sanskrit Mahabharata, Ramayana, Kalidasa's Kumarsambhava, Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya. In Bengali Meghnadbodh. In Italian Dante's Divine Comedy and Tasso's (I have forgotten the name for the moment) are in the epic cast. In Greek of course Homer, in Latin Virgil. There are other poems which attempt the epic style, but are not among the masterpieces. There ...
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