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... the Rigveda's rajatám - whatever it may 86.Review of J.P. Mallory's book, In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth (Thames and Hudson, London, 1989) in the Times Literary Supplement, August 11-17, 1989, p. 881, col. 4. 87. The Hymns of the Rigveda, translated with a popular Commentary, edited by J. L. Shastri (Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1973), p. 417, col.... Armenians were indigenous to the ancient homeland, they borrowed arboreal terms from the Hurrians, as they did, when their own words should have been available. He has also 172. The Times Literary Supplement, March 14, 1986, p. 278. Page 275 questioned the economy of the new southern location, for although it resolves the problem of the great West-East movement of the In... favourite in Academe up to now. The Kurgan ('round mound') people north of the Black Sea are, in her view, the Proto-Indo- 173. Loc. cit. 174."Accounting for a Great Change", The Times Literary Supplement, June 24-30, 1988, p. 714, cols. 1-4. Page 276 Europeans who went forth to the west, to the south and to the east. She considers their direct descendants to be the I ...

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... Cutting Two slim packets of poetry have been put in my hands by a friend - one in typescript, the other in print - both re-comended with warm admiration; while a prose cutting from The Times Literary Supplement has been given me with disgust and disapproval. The printed booklet is entitled "Magnificat" and its writer is S.I.M., a woman. It makes pleasant reading. The general poetic atmosphere... In the crystal halo of your years or, I stretch torn hands to reach your piteous hands; I seek through tattered space your ample eyes. I come now to the cutting from The Times Literary Supplement. It is a few months old but it calls for comment, for it is concerned with one of our most gifted wielders of the pen both in prose and poetry. The part about his prose is mostly appreciative:... in his immortal mind occur instead, is there any lack in any blank-verse narrative by Sri Aurobindo of beautiful music organically adapted to the feeling and the vision. How is it The Times Literary Supplement critic got aesthetically so obtuse? And does he not realise that blank-verse music is the hardest to produce and therefore most clinchingly proves the inspired poet? Sri Aurobindo's being ...

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... leave the rest to the imagination or understanding of the reader. Another method which I hold to be equally artistic or, if you like, architectural is to give a large and 8 The Times Literary Supplement, 17 January 1942. Page 10 even a vast, a complete interpretation, omitting nothing that is necessary, fundamental to the completeness: that is the method I have chosen... these also have been banned by some critics, so I have no refuge left to me. As Mendonga is not a negligible critic and his verdict agrees with that of the eulogist of my philosophy in The Times Literary Supplement, not to speak of Page 15 others less authoritative like the communist reviewer of Iyengar's book who declared that it was not at all certain that I would live as... language and metrical rhythm but somewhat thin in thought and substance: my poems may conceivably have some higher quality than his in this last respect since the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement grants deep thought and 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 ...

... these also have been banned by some critics, so I have no refuge left to me. As Mendonҫa is not a negligible critic and his verdict agrees with that of the eulogist of my philosophy in The Times Literary Supplement , not to speak of others less authoritative like the communist reviewer of Iyengar's book who declared that it was not at all certain that I would live as a poet, it is perhaps incumbent... elevation of language and metrical rhythm but somewhat thin in thought and substance; my poems may conceivably have some higher quality than his in this last respect since the reviewer in The Times Literary Supplement grants deep thought and 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 Page ...

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... impetus: the engendering "not by seed but by power." Page 223 I may add an interesting relevant point. M. T. Barnyeat, reviewing Alice Swift- Rijink's Platonica in the Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 1978 (p. 1501), writes: "Did you know that Plato was born by virgin birth? His real father was the god Apollo who appeared in a vision to his mother's husband, Ariston,... ever sincerely, Bede Griffiths Page 275 References 1.Henry Chad wick, "The Paths of Heresy", review of Elaine Paget's The Gnostic Gospels in the Times Literary Supplement, March 21, 1980, p. 409, col.4. 2. Ibid., loc. cit. 3.Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry 1953), pp. 172-3. 4. Ibid., ...

... which science has observed in the gene-complex how does the design, the plan of its layout, remain so constant? We may approach an answer by quoting from a review of Hardy's book in the Times Literary Supplement (London) of December 23, 1965 under the caption "Masters of Our Fate?" After referring to Hardy's chapter on the inadequacy of Page 326 current biological science face... speculative genius lays bare in the field of biology. But he goes sufficiently far for the purpose of opening eyes like those of Darwinian extremists. We may again draw upon the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement to finish our survey. He follows up thus his reference to telepathy and biology: From this it is not a far step to assert that the living world is as closely linked with theology ...

... Inspiration and Effort SHELLEY, SWINBURNE, HOUSMAN — AND MARY SHELLEY   1   The Times Literary Supplement of November 21, 1968 (pages 1318-19), discusses under the title, "Shelley, Swinburne and Housman", the famous eighth line —   Fresh spring, and summer and winter hoar —   of one of Shelley's most Shelleyan lyrics beginning... the one hand I must thank and congratulate you, but on the other hand you have cooked your own goose, for Mr. Ingpen's report contradicts that on which I relied."   An article in the Times Literary Supplement of September 6, 1963, recounted the various diligent but unsuccessful efforts Page 275 on behalf of Housman, and the issue of May 9, 1968, published the Inaugural from ...

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... passage against the accusation of "pantheism". According to him, the words can be justified in their context. The justification is succinctly expressed thus by a reviewer of de Lubac in The Times Literary Supplement: 2 "The words are part of an apology addressed ad   1. Christianity and Evolution, pp. 99, 103. We have restored, from the French original, the capital letters wherever they ...

... English way in all ages and yet more in modern times is believed to be symbolically summed up in the sparing use of epithets like "great".   A recent issue (October 31, 1958) of the Times Literary Supplement is at hand. On glancing through its advertisement columns one finds short quotations made from reviews of several books by writers of less eminence than T. S. Eliot. Still, what does one ...

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... that a good critic should have a great "sense of fact", then we are constrained to say that she did not have facts with her. It is also strange that several decades ago a critic in the The Times Literary Supplement said that Sri Aurobindo's poetry did not have the magical rhythm of Tagore, Iqbal and Sarojini Naidu,—which only shows that he was not perceptive of the deeper and subtler rhythms that ...

... brought it out serially and it is no mere coincidence that in book form its appearance should have synchronised with the Second World War. The Life Divine was favourably reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement and Sir Francis Younghusband, an eminent Englishman with a deep interest in philosophy and mysticism, called it 'the greatest book' to come out in his time. He also wrote in a letter to ...

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... His thought is profound; his technical devices are commendable; but the music that enchants or disturbs is not there. Aurobindo is not another Tagore or Iqbal, or even Sarojini Naidu." – The Times Literary Supplement, July 8, 1944. Page 62 poetry is not merely beauty but power, it is not merely sweet imagination but creative vision – it is even the Rik, the mantra that impels the ...

... upon it. When a poet has subtle or uncommon thoughts or experiences to communicate, he might find a certain amount of obscurity unavoidable. The point has been clarified in an article in the Times Literary Supplement: As writing is designed to be read, it is evidently a merit in it to enable, rather than to impede, the reader's understanding, but it is true also that lucidity is not an absolute ...

... 46. Ibid., p. 523 47. Ibid., Vol. 9, p. 10 48. Ibid., Vol. 29, p. 375 49. Ibid., p. 810 50. Ibid., Vol. 9, pp. 392, 393 51. The Times Literary Supplement, July 3, 1943 52. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 571 53. Ibid., p. 578 54. Ibid., p. 582 55. Ibid., p. 571 56. Ibid., Vol. 26, pp. 274-75 ...

... similar processes occurring in regenerating tissues of amphibia." Page 225 About the experiments on the amino-acids, a reviewer of Albert Ducroqc's The Origin of Life in the Times Literary Supplement of January 17, 1958, writes: "It is clear that the ammo-adds play a fundamental part in living processes, and it is relevant that at an early stage in its history our earth had an envelope ...

... altogether in judging Sri Aurobindo. And the divagation from the bull's eye would indeed be undeserving of special notice, did it not happen in a famous and responsible English weekly, The Times Literary Supplement. Sri Aurobindo the prose-writer was fairly well'appraised, but the summing-up of him as a poet ran: "It cannot be said that Aurobindo shows any organic adaptation to music and melody. His ...

... given is: 'man's relation to the Divine.' "   My latest discovery is the title "Depicting the divine in Nature" of a review of Early Poussain Exhibition in the weekly from London, The Times Literary Supplement, October 28-November 2, 1988, p. 1204.   If you run into any helpful phrase - preferably in English literature - bearing on the bone of contention, do pass it on to me. I am waiting ...

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... this self-giving shares in its blissful beauty.   (15.9.1983)   As soon as I received your letter I fished out the issue of Mother India in which I had published from the Times Literary Supplement an article just right for soothing your wife's nerves and yours. As the book reviewed in it has been published from the States I would advise you to buy it to get a fuller treatment ...

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... ed., The Dawn of Civilization (Thames & Hudson, London, 1961). Possehl, G.L. ed.. Ancient Cities of the Indus (Vikas, New Delhi, 1979). Potter, Simeon, "The Language Gap", in The Times Literary Supplement (London) (April 23, 1964). Proceedings of the First All-India Congress of Zoology Part 2, Scientific Papers (Calcutta, 1959). Pusalker, A.D., article in Bharati Vidya (Bombay ...

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... different rates: Danish, for instance, developed much more rapidly 2."The Origin of the Indo-Aryans", The Cultural Heritage of India (1958). I, pp. 136-7. 3."The Language Gap", The Times Literary Supplement (London), April 23, 1964, p. 342, col. 3. Page 91 than German, or even Swedish." 4 So, even if Pānini is dated as by several scholars to 400 B.C. instead of 700 B.C. as ...

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... in various publications. The note dealing with Sri Aurobindo's learning of English (p. 25) was written in reply to a review of Sri Aurobindo's Collected Poems and Plays published in the Times Literary Supplement (London) on 8 July 1944. The note was incorporated in a letter by R. Vaidyanathaswamy, editor of the Advent (Madras), that was published in the TLS on 6 January 1945. The note on ...

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... sweep and swirl whose changing rhythms, for all their separate roles, are basically harmonious as in Homer's original. Unaware of the right mould found by Sri Aurobindo, a writer in the Times Literary Supplement "There is no equivalent between a metrical six-foot line [i.e. the quantitative hexameter] and one dependent on stress, but the technique 1 "The Masks of Homer", col. 3. ...

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... efforts claim justification from the fact that an actual plant was used in rituals of the times succeeding those of the ancient scripture which had made Soma famous. But, as the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement 1 of R. Gordon Wasson's monumental study, Soma, the Divine Mushroom of Immortality, 2 clearly tells us, the plant in question was acknowledged to be a substitute. The fundamental fact ...

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... -Balaka, 228 -Gitanjali, 99n -"The Golden Boat", 64n -"Salutation", 266n Tantras, the, 28-9, 165 Terence, 239n The Eternal Wisdom, 131 Theocritus, 86 . The Times Literary Supplement, 62n., 126n Thibon, Gustave, 126-7 Thompson, Francis, 143 -"The Hound of Heaven", 143n Times, 127 Titan, 97, 159 Turkey, 284 UCHATHYA, 163 Uma,170 United Nations ...

... the instincts rule, let the pro-letariat dictate!" But more characteristic, Monsieur Thibon has made another discovery which gives the whole value and ¹ The Life Divine ² The Times Literary Supplement, January 15, 1949 Page 126 speciality to his outlook. He says the moderns stress the lower, no doubt; but the old world stressed only the higher and neglected the lower. Therefore ...

... like a mother tongue, is bound to wield the language with a significant difference. But such differences will only serve to enrich the language, not impoverish it. As a writer declared in the Times Literary Supplement, the 'centre of gravity' had shifted and "while we are busy 'consolidating', a brand new 'English' literature will be appearing in Johannesburg or Sydney or Vancouver or Madras." 5 He ...

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... scope.         The criticism of length—"unconscionable length"—has been made, not only against Savitri, but against Sri Aurobindo's major works generally. It was the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement who in an otherwise eulogistic appreciation of The Life Divine found it also to be of "unconscionable length". 158 The reviewer of Ilion in the Hindu found in it "descriptions, ...

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... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 An Evolutionary Problem THE London Times Literary Supplement (July 27, 1946), in the course of a critical estimate of Bernard Shaw, writes: "Mr. Shaw pats Lamarck on the back and accepts his theory that 'living organisms change because they want to'. If you have no eyes and want to see and keep ...

... TACITUS, 87 Tagore, Rabindranath, 195, 197-8, 200-1 Tantras, the, 63, 216, 248 Thales, 329 Thebes, 91 Thor, 201 Tibet, 177n Times Literary Supplement, the, 254 Toynbee, Arnold, 238, 242n Trethowan, Rev. 252 Treitschke, 24 UNRRA,1O4 Ukraine, 74 Upanishads, the, 55, 200, 214-15, 217, ...

... the heavenward heart of the poet in you. I think it's the first time that "Pondicherry" has figured in a poem. Originally I heard of this town in connection with a competition in an old Times Literary Supplement. That was before I joined the Ashram. Readers were asked to invent a name for a book such as would never tempt anybody to buy and read it. The first prize was won by the title: "How to ride... who is beyond all error to intervene and help His Truth to find expression in the complex of earthly circumstances. Dynamic activity on our part is not ruled out; it is even imperative, at least at times. However, it issues across an inner passivity to the hearing of that Truth by our psychic being. (17.12.1989) Your letter of 21 November brought a number of significant themes - the chief being... es to that past Page 287 maniiestation of Sri Aurobindo, during the Creadon of those great visions, was perhaps my happy job. At the Samadhi on November 25 I thought several times of the hour it would be in Grafelfing. Your information that 11.45 there would be 4.15 here and 1 on your wrist-watch be 5.30 on mine proved a good guide to my imagining what you might be doing ...

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... "Its length is an indispensable condition for carrying out its purpose and everywhere there is this length, critics may say an 'unconscionable length' -1 am quoting the description of the Times Literary Supplement's criticism of The Life Divine - in every part, in every passage, in almost every canto or section of a canto. It has been planned not on the scale of Lycidas or Comus or some brief... ence was going on between Sri Aurobindo and me. Not out of curiosity but literary interest, occasionally when he handed me my "post" he slightly lifted his eyebrows and lingered for a few seconds. I looked very innocent, took the envelope and waited for him to depart before opening it. It happened like that four or five times. Then I felt a little nervous, so I wrote Page 331 to... the title 'Sri Aurobindo - Letters on Savitri: Editor's Note to the 1951 Edition', see p. 49.] Page 316 pour into me by intermittent inspiration. Sri Aurobindo was as expert a literary guru as a spiritual one. Judicious criticism, balanced encouragement, illuminative analysis met every effort I made towards better and better composition. On one such occasion, to illustrate some ...

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... the listening air.   I think it's the first time that "Pondicherry" has figured in a poem. The first time I heard of this town was in connection with a competition in an old TLS ( Times Literary Supplement) . Readers were asked to invent a name for a book such as would never interest one to read it. The first prize was won by "How to Ride a Tricycle"; the second by the title "The Roads of... 18th, 1979. It acknowledges receipt of a short poem I had sent. I remember still the shyness I felt when sending those lines to so eminent a writer, and furthermore to one who had corresponded on literary matters with Sri Aurobindo himself. I did not then know about Amal's unfailing kindness to aspiring poets, and his ability to find exactly the right words to inspire confidence and hope. He always... Bodeleian Library where it would be available to other scholars. Amal, however, preferred to wait until a publisher could be found. He wrote: "I personally think Mallarme is one of my best things in the literary field."   I had never been a gifted letter writer, but from time to time I would send books that Amal had been unable to get Page 115 in Pondicherry, or my own attempts ...

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... steeds of tawny colour are mentioned after a reference to 'these two' make an implied white steed     17. Greppin, A.C., Review of J.P. Mallory's In Search of the Indo-Europeans, Times Literary Supplement, August 11-17,1989, p. 881, col. 4. 18. Griffith, R.T.H., The Hymns of the Rigveda , New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, reprinted 1976, p. 417. Page 164 pair with a... archaeology and other sources with a mastery of ancient literary works to reveal them in unexpected light. One of his major contributions has been the correlation of technical evidence from archaeology and other sources with literary accounts to help place ancient history and chronology on solid ground. In his search for both technical and literary evidence, Sethna has not been content to limit himself...     References   The main references are:   Sethna, K.D., The Problem of Aryan Origins: From an Indian Point of View. Second extensively enlarged edition with five supplements, New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1992. Sethna, K.D., KARPASA in Prehistoric India: a Chronological and Cultural clue, New Delhi: Biblia Impex, 1981. Jha, N. and Rajaram, N.S., The Deciphered ...

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...       58. A.B. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, p. 127.       59.  The Life Divine, p. 947.       60.  Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother, p. 333.       61.  Times Literary Supplement, 8 July 1944.       62.  The Renaissance of Hinduism, p. 305.       63.  Laureate of Peace, p. 173.       64. This para is very largely derivative and mainly draws upon S.K...       18.  The House of the Titans, pp. 1-2.       19.  Essays in Literary Criticism, edited by Irving Singer, p. 403.       20.  ibid , p. 405.       21. See Wellek & Warren, Theory of Literature, p. 195.       22. Quoted in Cassirer, Language and Myth, p. 5.       23.  Collected Essays in Literary Criticism, p. 101.       24.  Language and Myth, p. 99. See also Berdyaev:... and the revelations of the mystic would then be grounded not only upon subconscious memory and instinct, but also upon the influx of energy from a larger Self."       38.  Collected Essays in Literary Criticism, p. 44.       39. Quoted in The Imprisoned Splendour, p. 81.       40.  The Destiny of the Mind, p. 122. Also Robert Graves:"... it is not too much to say that all original ...

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