Thomson : James (1700-48), British poet famous for Seasons which foreshadowed some of the attitudes of the Romantic movement. He also wrote a few plays.
... On Poetry and Literature Early Cultural Writings Sketch of the Progress of Poetry from Thomson to Wordsworth The Age of transition from the poetry of Pope to that of Wordsworth begins strictly speaking with Thomson. This transition was not an orderly and consistent development, but consisted of different groups of poets or sometimes even single... only slightly modified by the greater and more original writers. These different groups of writers may be thus divided. (1) The school of natural description & elegiac moralising, consisting of Thomson, Dyer, Green, Young and other inferior writers. (2) The school of Miltonic Hellenists, begun by Warton &consisting besides of Gray, Collins, Akenside and a number of followers. (3) The school of Johnson... 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 an almost exclusive devotion of their poetry to the description of natural objects and natural scenery. In ...
... for the individual, death has proved salutary for the species, since, thanks to its agency, the species can continually renovate and revitalize itself through the introduction 1 J. A. Thomson, "Life and Death" in The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. 8, p. 4. 2 Michael F. Guyer, "Reproduction", in The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. XIX, p. 171 B. 3 S. Metalinkov... even primarily, upon the physiological factors arising in the individuals taken in isolation, but is rather governed by the global necessity of the species. Thus, in the view of Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, "natural death is not to be thought of as like the running down of a clock. It is more than an individual physiological problem; it is adjusted in reference to the welfare of the species.... ... represented the whole truth of things, there could be no possibility whatsoever of increasing the life-span of man, not 1 Weissmann, quoted by S. Metalnikov, op.cit. 2 J. Arthur Thomson, "Age", in The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. I, p. 4. (Italics ours) 3 S. Metalnikov, op. cit. 4 J. A. V. Buter, Inside the Living Cell, p. 153. Page 384 ...
... William Thomson, later known as Lord Kelvin, “during most of his life widely thought of as the leading physicist and electrical engineer in the world,” still thought that the Sun’s energy was generated by coal. Basing himself on this supposition, he calculated an age for the Earth much too short for the evolution of life to be possible. As Darwin mentions in his Origin : “Sir W. Thomson concludes ...
... reached you, so she said no more about it; hence my reiteration. Anyhow I suppose you have the photos now. As for the rupee note, it must have dematerialised and flown away somewhere. I dare say Thomson may be right about the inability of the great B. P. [British Public] to appreciate a detail picture of Bengali life. It is too unfamiliar—Russia is different, it is at least semi-occidental, but... goal—for it is not true and this feeling must be surely the cause of the feeling of suffering when you meditate. March 17,1936 I have no objection to your favouring Walking Language Thomson (it is as good a classic as the journey of Flying Vishwanath Gopal) with a letter. The one you have written will do, I think. But the postscript you propose won't do, for it might make him think that ...
... and rhetoric of the modern counterpart. And the difference of spirit is not less. A poet of the prosaic and artificial age when the Anglo-Saxon mind emerged in England and got itself Gallicised, Thomson was unable to grasp the first psychological laws of such descriptive poetry. He fixed his eye on the object, but he could only see the outside of it. Instead of creating he tried to photograph. And ...
... long passage that seems to expand ideas presented in the third paragraph of the lecture is published separately under the title "Poetry" (see above). Sketch of the Progress of Poetry from Thomson to Wordsworth. See the note to the previous piece for dating information. Additional passages are treated as in that piece. Appendix: Test Questions. Sri Aurobindo evidently wrote these ...
... so [true ?]. That was why I have been so deeply stirred by Harm's on A.E. Do write a sonnet at least on him Guru—don't you think he deserves it—in these days when people pooh-pooh mystic poetry (as Thomson wrote to me) when A.E. still stood to his guns on his lonely heights. Why you really set so much store by Yeats I can't gather—he is often so impossibly obscure. But A.E. is never so. His has been ...
... see". 1932 ? ... PS. Did you read Cromnur Byng's compliments on my poems (I had sent him about a dozen of my latest) that he "greatly admired my beautiful poems ?" What would Thomson say to that? If even my beginner's poems are so appreciated (for I would not think he was insincere here—Englishmen are very chary of praise in such matters) how would he respond to the magnificent ...
... sensation; but he has their burning grandiloquence and their vivid complexity. He is a genius who has put like the great masters his stamp upon poetic diction. Nobody writing after him can ignore the Thomson-effect — a bursting splendour, an ingenious swirl of hue and harmony. On almost any page he provides examples: The long laburnum drips Its honey of wild flame, its jocund spilth of fire ...
... observable either in the direction of growth or degeneration; after this sooner or later the individual can be observed to have definitely passed into the next phase of life-cycle. 1 J. A. Thomson, "Life and Death" in The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (Ed. Hastings), Vol. 8, p. 4. Page 333 (d)The period of senescence, characterized by a progressive waning in the ...
... See chapter in Structure et physiologie des sociétés animales (CNRS, Paris), 1952. 15.J .T. Bonner, The Evolution of Development (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1958). 16.& 17. Geddes and Thomson, The Evolution of Sex, pp. 329-330. Page 208 and a Principium Individuationis." 18 But the problem of harmoni-sation has also become more difficult in the case of self-aware ...
... History, Henri Becquerel discovered that the element uranium emits penetrating radiation (natural radioactivity). 1896,July First treatment of cancer using X-rays. 1897 J.J. Thomson characterized the electron by measuring its speed and charge-to-mass ratio, and showed that all atoms contain electrons. 1897,Sept.12 Birth of Irene Curie, first daughter of Pierre and ...
... sketched by Mother in 1920 (Abhay Singh's coll.) 428 Front page of the first issue of the Arya 21,87,437 Drawings by Sujata Achevé d'imprimer sur les presses de Thomson Press (Faridabad, Inde) October 2001 Depot legal 3 C trimestre 2001 ...
... surface manner recalling just so much as maybe perceived by a casual glance. Of sympathy with Nature or close observation of it, there is hardly a single instance in English poetry between Dryden and Thomson. 4ṭḥ The exclusion of human emotion, i.e. to say poetry was not only limited to the workings of the human mind and human nature but to cultured society and to the town, & not only to this but to ...
... h, the young, 44 , 52 , 57 , 154 see also education Yugantar (Bengali weekly), 17 zamindar, 40(fn) zenana, 44 Page 271 Acheve d'imprimer sur les presses de Thomson Press (Faridabad, Inde) pour I'Institut de Recherches Evolutives, Janvier 1997 Dep6t legal 1er " trimestre 1997 ...
... prison of the formal metrical mould, rhetorical style, limited subject-matter, absence of imagination and vision imposed by the high pontiffs of the pseudo-classical cult. Poets like Gray, Collins, Thomson, Chatterton, Cowper seek liberation by a return to Miltonic blank verse and manner, to the Spenserian form,—an influence which prolonged itself in Byron, Keats and Shelley,—to lyrical movements, but ...
... there glimmers out a presage of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats. A forerunner more immediate in time as well as in several moods is the effort made by poets like Gray, Collins, Thomson, Chatterton and Cowper in the third quarter of the eighteenth century to break away, in Sri Aurobindo's words, 5 "from the prison of the formal metrical mould, rhetorical style, limited subject-matter ...
... otherwise known as germ cells maintain continuity between successive generations. Hence the epigram variously expressed albeit in slightly different terms: "Death is the price paid for a body" (Arthur Thomson), or "the penalty paid for a body is death." (Mariano Fiallos-Gil). But why this strange disability on the part of the somatic cells, especially when all the higher animals have their bodies ...
... exaltation of Life." (Fichte) (iv)"For birth hath in itself the germ of death, But death hath in itself the germ of birth... For they are twain yet one, and Death is Birth." (Francis Thomson: "Ode to the Setting Sun") (v)"Life and Death — two companions who relieve one another in the leading of the soul to its journey's end." (Paul Richard) 1 Bulletin of Physical ...
... this circumscription of the capacity of an organism and the gradual corrosion of its metabolic functions, leading finally to the failure of life ? Are we to suppose that a 1 2 J. Arthur Thomson, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (Ed. Hastings), Vol. 8, p. 2. 3 X. Bichat, Recherches physiologiques sur la Vie et la Mort, quoted on p. 135 of Death: its Causes and Phenomena ...
... terms of a wave-function found by Schrodinger in 1926. At one time it was thought that the electron is both a particle and a wave. Even experimental evidence appeared to confirm this view. Prof. G.P. Thomson prepared a sheet of metal, crystalline in structure and one- millionth of an inch thick, and sent a stream of electrons through it upon a photographic plate on the other side: the pattern traced on ...
... detracting from his undoubted importance as a thinker and perhaps a saint. You will never persuade any Western poet or critic." 1 And this view is confirmed by other literati, among them William Irwin Thomson, who suggests that Yogis should on principle be debarred from expressing themselves in verse, since they do it so badly, and cites Sri Aurobindo as an example. That Sri Aurobindo's poetry runs ...
... potently pervasive. Even the most masterful intellect often finds itself infected with the noxious ¹cf. Yet was I sore adread Lest, having Him, I must have naught beside. FRANCIS THOMSON Page 250 stuff of the citta, which distorts and perverts its reasoning and judgment. One often catches oneself feeling a sort of unaccountable antipathy towards a person for whom ...
... late last century 234 The Thames, London, late last century 37, 169, 203, 220, 237 Drawings by Sujata Achevé d'imprimer sur les presses de Thomson Press (Faridabad, Inde) décembre 1995 Depot legal 4' trimestre 1995 ...
... Rumour means "sound", "noise" as in "rumour of the sea". 28. "Its thorns of fallen nature are the defence It turns against the saviour hands of Grace" Compare Francis Thomson's "The Hound of heaven". Page 139 CANTO - I "The gesture must be "Slow Miraculous"—.If it is merely miraculous or merely slow that does not create a picture of the thing ...
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