Wordsworth, William : (1770-1850), leader English Romantic movement, described himself as a “worshipper of Nature”, is often referred to as “Nature’s priest”. His name is inextricably linked with his native Lake District in the north of England.
... 394 Willey, Basil 410 Williams, Charles 381, 448 Williams, Tennessee 268 Winternitz 254, 255 Wolff, Otto 37 Woodroffe, Sir John 330 Wordsworth, William 135, 309, 388 Yeats, W.B. 314,389,391,445 Younghusband, Sir Francis 5 Yutang, Lin 305 Page 497 ...
... group of poets whose body of work was so astounding as to perpetuate the notion that "Romantic" refers directly, even solely, to their poetry. These were Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. William Wordsworth's "Preface" to his Lyrical Ballads is considered the manifesto of the Romantic movement from a poet's viewpoint. The following extracts are taken from this essay, and describe ...
... Visvamitra, Rishi 92 Vivekananda, Swami 15 Werner Haubrich (Saumitra) 674 ,. The Wherefore of the Worlds 110, 120, 127 Wilson, Margaret see Nishtha Wilson, President Woodrow 398 Wordsworth, William 5-6, 111, 484, 514 World Union 573, 685-6, 755 Wretched of the Earth, The 773 Yogic Sadhan 91 Yoga Sutras 192 Younghusband, Sir Francis 409 Zen Buddhism 153, 193ff, 288 Zir ...
... Margaret Woodrow (Nishta), 577 Wilson, President Woodrow, 413 Wingfield-Stratford, Esme, 13 Witch of Ilni. The, 119,152-53 Woodroffe, Sir John, 491 Wordsworth, William, 176,177,614-15 Yajnavalkya, 416,505 Yeats, W.B.,615ff Yogic Sadhan, 336,380,405 Younghusband, Sir Francis, 17,202 Yugantar (Jugantar), 199, 217-18, 219 ...
... and Art of William Blake, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto (Gollancz, London), 1957. Eliot, T. S. Selected Poems - T. S. Eliot (Penguin Poets, Harmondsworth), 1948. Ezekiel Frye, Northrop "Blake After Two Centuries" in English Romantic Poets, Modern Essays in Criticism, edited by M. H. Abrams (New York), 1960. Grierson, Sir Herbert Milton and Wordsworth (Cambridge)... Pondicherry), 1972. Bateson, F. W. Selected Poems of William Blake, Edited with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes (Heinemann, London), 1957. Blackstone, Bernard English Blake (Cambridge), 1949. Boehme Signatura Rerum and Other Discourses (Everyman's Library, London). Translation by William Law, first published in 4 Vols., 1764-1781. Bowra, E. M. ... (Princeton, 1977): Blake and Antiquity. "The Little Girl Lost and Found and the Lapsed Soul" in The Divine Vision, Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto (Gollancz, London), 1957. William Blake (Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans Green & Co., London, New York, Toronto), 1951. Rajan, B. Paradise ...
... the view of tiny Paris years and years ago and kept quiet. William Morris must have known that view times without number there. For when he was in Paris for a fairly long stay he began to go every day to the Eiffel Tower and sit from morning to evening, perched high there. At last, after a month of daily visit, a friend said to him: "William, what makes you so fond of the Eiffel Tower?" Morris replied:... like: "I've sprained my ankle." The gleam in her eyes was distantly akin to the one which Wordsworth spoke of in a famous stanza. His phrase ran: . .. and add the gleam The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the Poet's dream. This wonderful phrase, I may tell you, Wordsworth himself in his later years, his "deadened years", changed to: . .. and add a gleam... Besides, the language has lost all magic. Even the idea sought to be communicated has become prosaic in expression. Surely Wordsworth could have written: ... and add a gleam Of lustre strange to either sea or land But captured from the Poet's youth of dream. Wordsworth seemed too far gone for genuine poetry from his dreaming youth to his intellectualised dotage. Luckily, though he had ...
... Heaven, Satanic, starry, 173,174,241,244,251 William Blake, 4 fn. 10,23 fn. 8,146 fn. 35 "William Blake and Modern Psychology", 141 fn. 8 Williamson, George, 41 Wickstead, Joseph H., 132,136 fn. 21 wings, 49,50,51,92,93-96,105,106, 120,224-26 Witcutt, W.P., 141 fn. 8,225,282 Word, the, 43 Wordsworth, 131 "work", 29,30,31,62,63,110,222 Workman... Christology , 40, 69 "climb", 150, 157 Coleridge, 5, 127 Colossians , 102, 231 fn. 309 "Collective Unconscious" , 4, 142 Collected Poems of Sri Aurobindo , 4 fn. 7 Complete Writings of William Blake, The, 2 fn. l Confessions , 73 Critical Essays on English Literature, iv, fn. 1 "Daughters of Beulah", 228 David, 46, 49 "David and Goliath", 5 De Doctrina Christiana... Philosophia ad Athenienses, 170 Pluto, 135 Platonists, 28 Pleroma, 252 Plowman, Dorothy, 144 fn. 18 Plowman, Max, 133,134 Pluto, 134,135 Poems and Prophecies by William Blake, 133 fn. 13 "Poetic Genius, the", 70,216 Porphyry, 134 Portable Blake, The, 22 fn. 5 "Preludium", 159 Preface to Paradise Lost, A, 102 fn. 162 Proclus ...
... Movement in England was William Wordsworth, though Burns and Blake may be consi-dered the pioneers in a general sense. You might think Words-worth was rather a contrast to Hugo. We have been accustomed to picture him as a sedate and philosophic solitary of Nature. But we must not allow our notion of him in middle or old age to colour or discolour the reality of him in his youth. Wordsworth learned his lesson... lopment of Wordsworth. I mention it in order only to contradict the importance attached to it by some critics in connection with the sudden decline in Wordsworth's poetic powers a little past his middle age. Herbert Read is the chief exponent here, and he takes his cue from the fact that, although Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy did all they could to help Annette and the baby-girl, Wordsworth instead... It goes without saying that there was no return next day to the psychiatrist's clinic. But let us return to Wordsworth. I consider Read's reading Of Wordsworth's poetic decline to be far-fetched. There were seeds of the decline from the very beginning. For one thing, Wordsworth began under the influence of the 18th century and broke off from it under the influence of the new ideas that were ...
... Scotch lyric poets of whom Ferguson and Burns are the head. (7) William Blake standing by himself as a romantic, mystical& lyric poet. Besides these 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... On Literature 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... Elizabethans. The main influences of this school on future poetry are (1st) the habit of describing Nature for its own sake (2) the Thomsonian form of blank verse which was afterwards adopted by Cowper & Wordsworth and improved by Shelley (3) the use of the Spenserian stanza in narrative poetry (4) the sense for antiquity & for the picturesque as regards ruins (5) the habit of moralising on subjects of general ...
... has found her soul-mate at last. Poetry is in the vibration of Savitri's thoughts. In To a Distant Friend , Wordsworth repeats the same directive verb twice in the sestet indicating the urgency of his call for a response from his friend. But, this vibration is not there in Wordsworth. Savitri expresses here the soul of her emotion. She uses "speak" for the fourth time in the next line—speak... lines bring in more of such indicative imagery. Sri Aurobindo's detractors would feel elated in calling such images vague and pompous. But then, the Seer-Poet is certainly not less intelligent than William Walsh and Adil Jussawala's. He knows what he is doing. Contrary to Jussawala's view of Savitri as an "onion" opening to nothingness, 11 I find, every image of the poem intellectually scrutinised... supervises this inspired poetry. These three aspects are related to the advanced consciousness of 9 Ibid , p. 393. 10 Ibid . 11 Readings in Common wealth Literature , Edited by William Walsh, Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1973. See the whole essay by Adil Jussawalla, which is strongly anti-Aurobindonian. Page 482 Satyavan. The image of the "Rishi" exactly expresses ...
... planes meet in an intimate embrace, and out of the flux and the tension, the passion and the creative will, is born the child Savitri who shall be the redeemer, the saviour. Of the child Lucy, William Wordsworth writes: Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take... ...
... matters. To eschew vague ornamentation and rhetoric is no doubt a true instinct, and the modern recoil from the heavy exuberance in some of the early work of Laurence Binyon or the inflated emptiness of William Watson in particular moods makes for a healthy tension and pithiness; yet it is purblind folly and a deafness of ear to run down as too elaborate the lyric exquisiteness of colourful phrase Binyon... zeal to show an impartial mind we must not let our aesthetic acumen be blunted by the interestingness or momentousness of the subject, the sincerity or novelty of the treatment. Though we may value Wordsworth's psychological observations, he can never be forgiven for enfeebling his discoveries by deficient technique or setting marvellous lines to voyage, lonely and depressed, half their freshness lost... expressive mood which goes home by a rhythmical lift and intensity in phrase and metre. He may be straightforward and simple and even conversational provided he conjures up that subtle strangeness. Wordsworth did so at his best and Shakespeare almost always when he wanted to say anything worth saying in a swift and clear fashion which was less crowded with images than his usual style. But the important ...
... studies on a variety of subjects, was editing a highly admired journal, Mother India and teaching English poetry to Indian students. He came in contact with Miss Raine because of his studies in William Blake and his Christological interpretation of Blake's Tyger. Kathleen Raine was already a big name in English writing by 1960. Born on 14th June 1908 in Essex, Raine had a happy childhood... she was not writing as much as she should, she managed to publish more than a dozen books of poetry in the six decades of her active poetic career. Her spiritual inclinations drew her to a poet like William Blake and to India. She considered India to be a beautiful land, its people beautiful metaphorically and literally. This view of life no doubt inspired her to launch the magazine Temenos4 for she felt... letters exchanged between Kathleen Raine and Amal Kiran in 1961 and 1962. The background is of course Raine's love for India and Amal Kiran's love for English literature and the love both have for William Blake. The correspondence begins with Amal Kiran's manuscript of Blake studies which had been sent to Kathleen Raine by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar spent some time cogitating upon the ...
... turn to them to derive from them some insights relevant to our purpose here. The first book that was published in 1902 is William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience, and the second book, that was written during 1914-21, is Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga. William James uses the phrase Religious Experience, but it is clear that most of the accounts of the experiences given in the book... may call it God's Presence or the Presence that Page 84 seems vibrating in Nature. If we read the poems in which Wordsworth expressed his realisation of Nature, you may acquire some distant idea of what yogic realisation is. First of all, W6 see that Wordsworth had the vision of something in the world which is the very Self of all things that it contains, a conscious force and presence... suprasensuous, supramental realisation of the Transcendent who is beyond all its aspects and the final summit of yogic knowledge which is also the source of all Divine delight and Divine living. William James , in the experiences that he has presented in his book, bring us certain vivid descriptions of certain stages and aspects of the inner yogic life and yogic state and succeeds in inviting ...
... Romantic poetry could be considered as Rajasic as occurring from the vital and emotional planes. (See "The Sources of Poetry", written in 1912; first published in Advent, 1953). Interestingly, William Wordsworth could be seen as the one single instance of a didactic poet who through a vital engagement with the Page 342 dynamic aspects of creativity comes to discover the very... informs Amal Kiran's readings. The idea of time, ageing and the creative tension had always been in some corner of my mind, and I was always intrigued by the manifestation of these in the poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats. So this felicitation volume proffered me the ideal context for problematising these issues in a new light. * * * The creative is of course more important than the creator... very soul of being - approaching it through not a silencing of the intellect, but on the other hand, through singular reflection. Let me take a closer look at what I hold to be Wordsworth's greatest achievement in this direction - "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood". The poem opens with the almost oft-repeated poetic feelings of nostalgia for the past: ...
... fretting for days before he sleeps the sleep of the just, the man who has done justice to the divine discontent in him. Dorothy Wordsworth records how William once wore his nerves to shreds trying to find a new revealing epithet for the cuckoo. I can quite understand William's scrupulousness — would he had never learned to wear his readers' nerves to shreds as he did in later life by finding a country... splendour of the Classics. Wordsworth's finely intonated Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn is undoubtedly a reminiscence of Spenser's Triton blowing loud his wreathed home; while Keats's ...Magic casements opening on the foam Of perilous seas in faery lands forlorn is a superb transfiguration of Wordsworth's idea about his "lady of the... it succumb to the temptation of scintillating itself away in mere epigram. Analyse true poetry wherever you find it and you will immediately notice how clever the similes and metaphors are. Take Wordsworth's It is a beauteous evening calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Is it not ingenious of the poet to link up the idea of a nun to that of the ...
... limps, because everything has its uniqueness as well as its resemblances to other things, but in a successful figurative phrase the poet packs his vision of the same essence in two different objects. William Watson, interpreting a sea-scape - And I beheld the waters in their might Writhe as a serpent by some great spell curbed And foiled - or Shakespeare expressing how the mast-climbing... art filled the rivers and the murmuring and the dark with attributes above themselves, attributes of a plenary Creative Process by which some primeval chaos is vivified. When, however, I read in Wordsworth, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, I had a sort of inner awakening as if the language struck with a direct breath of the transcendental, uplifting or in-drawing the imagination ...
... illustrations actually puzzling vis-à-vis the texts is also a fact. And at least with regard to the poems, The Little Girl Lost and its sequel The Little Girl 13. Poems and Prophecies by William Blake, edited by Max Plowman (Everyman's Library, London), 1939, Introduction , p. XXV. Page 133 Found, two pieces which were ultimately transferred from the group of Innocence... the babes playing round 14.Keynes, ed. cit., p. 825 (The Letters, 27). 15."The Little Girl Lost and Found and the Lapsed Soul" in The Divine Vision, Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto (Gollancz, London), 1957, pp. 17-47. 16. Ibid., 24. Page 134 her. The number seven is symbolic in quite another sense." 17 This sense ... fn. 1. Page 130 and in a later engraved version (c. 1803) used "forg'd" instead of "Form'd". 8 He also seems to have allowed the same verb in a "selection from the lyrics seen by Wordsworth c. 1803 and by B. H. Malkin not later than 1806". 9 However, neither verb was a poetic improvement for his purpose. Despite the forcible language, the process of creation now became, as Bateson ...
... story but with episodes. PURANI: It is a pity Tagore has not written an epic. SRI AUROBINDO: Tagore? He has not the epic mind. But he has written some very fine narrative poems. A few of William Morris' narratives are also very fine—his Sigurd ihe Volsung and Earthly Paradise, especially the latter. I read them a number of times in my early days. There is a tendency to belittle him, because... NIRODBARAN: Perhaps because he is the poet-laureate. SRI AUROBINDO: Poet-laureate! Anybody can be a poet laureate. The only people of real worth to whom the title was given were Tennyson and Wordsworth. Masefield's poems are Georgian, full of rhetoric. PURANI: Thompson asked me to read the poems of Eliot. He was in ecstasy over them. I read them. I couldn't find anything there. Neither in Ezra ...
... statement loses all relevance. Milton's intellectual theology, Wordsworth's half-philosophical half-emotional pantheism and Tennyson's vague religious idealism can hardly be equated with the vision and experience of a Master of Yoga. As for the manner, it is equally individual in its turns and tones. Except that Sri Aurobindo. like Milton, Wordsworth and Tennyson, does not bring in the typical modernist idiom... Spenser downwards and which has nothing unpoetic about it except that twentieth-century poets do not frequently employ it should be criticised at just the place where it is most appropriate. When William Watson spoke of a time Pendulous 'twixt the gold hour and the grey he was certainly not propping himself up in amateur versification; the word is subtly expressive of brief delicate... metrical skill, and a sound poetic sensitivity based on the classics and much akin to that of many of the more conservative masters. Sometimes it is as if Sri Aurobindo had taken the cream of Milton, Wordsworth and Tennyson and stirred it to boiling point in the cauldron of his Muse. There are some first-rate passages of blank verse, e.g. Only he listens to the voice of his thoughts, his heart's ...
... dreaming on things to come... Here it is not only Wordsworth but also the Aurobindonian 'overhead poetry' that is anticipated. A similar prefiguration of it in again a semi-Wordsworthian feeling and form is met with in Vaughan's But felt through all this earthly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. In Wordsworth's own time of the so-called Romantic Revival we get in the... refined, landing us as it does upon Freud's subconscious mind and the 'Id' about which Dowden knew little and Wordsworth less. So there is an urge to play down whatever supernatural aura the line bears. One critic has Page 56 sought the key to it in those two other lines of Wordsworth's: The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers... deeper vision and meaning and its reverberations of the Overhead. So also with Wordsworth's line about the 'fields of sleep': I have since then moved in those fields of sleep and felt the breath which is carried from them by the winds that came to the poet, so I can better appreciate the depth of vision in Wordsworth's line. I could also see more clearly the impact of the Overhead on the work of poets ...
... though I'm not yet en route to the gloriously tragic stage of which Wordsworth speaks - And mighty poets in their misery dead. Maybe I have escaped that fate because of not being "mighty" enough - and thank God for that, for our aim is not to be mighty in the traditional way but to be a channel for - to quote Wordsworth again - The light that never was on sea or land. To attempt a... Maybe you too belonged to that same England and shared in the soulful aestheticism which came to what 1 may call flaming flower in the vision and work of the two Rossettis as well as Walter Pater, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. * I feel rather worried about the condition of your eyes. I can't quite make out what exactly is wrong. It seems sometimes Page 30 you can ...
... made the choice, for here the passage is from splendour into mystery, the bright visible is the guide to the fathomless invisible which is to Wordsworth the trance-goal of all conscious seeking for the divinity interfused with the world. Mention of Wordsworth of the "Tintern-Abbey" period brings me to your question whether I would ascribe to you dalliance with eternity or dalliance with transience... serious-minded a singer as Wordsworth. But surely serious-mindedness doesn't preclude the light-hearted romantic temper. It only precludes romancing with life's superficialities. Even in common things the Wordsworthian mood searches for a deep chord of living. And this chord, a music of time coming from a silence of eternity, makes for a persistent happiness. Didn't Wordsworth say, "Even Coleridge didn't... can't see Coleridge as likely to be accurate about dates. He may well have read Wordsworth's letter. The thing about poetic images and metaphors and symbols is not that it is either from this source or from that, but and, as in the imaginative world a crystallization takes place of this waterfall seen by Wordsworth, another described in Purchase, the first wondrous waterfall we saw as a child ...
... hanging flowers, Sometimes they're hot gold patches of the sun.. . 50 which is a vivid enough and realistic enough description of the man-eaters in an Indian jungle; but here is William Blake— Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?— and what a ... —Shakespeare Voyaging though strange seas of thought, alone; —Wordsworth Anityam asukham lokam im ā m pr ā pya bhajasva m ā m (Thou who hast come to this transient and unhappy world, love and worship Me); ...
... and Government hostility outside. A lesser man than Bharati would have completely broken under the double strain, but being a Titan, he stood his ground bravely, and he could have said with the poet William Ernest Henley: In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed... brave heroic soul that was Subramaniam Bharati had passed away. Bharati's Poetical Works The circumstances of Bharati's life were such that he could not - as a Wordsworth or a Tennyson did - pursue the profession of poetry either with security or with steady success. Few lives could have been more chequered, and he had constantly to struggle against poverty at home... Kamaladevi wanted to revive the age-old crafts from extinction. She found beauty in everything and had an awareness of art and beauty even in the most dubious of places. She was a nature lover like Wordsworth. She had a special love for the rural and rustic life. The Indian embroidery she liked were the trappings for animals, horses, elephants and bullocks. The minute details on the mud walls of cottages ...
... dark," Here I may remind you that even the other prop Rowse had offered - namely, that in accord with the punning "Will" sonnets Emilia was married to William Lanier - has broken down. Mary Edmond has proved that Emilia was married not to William but to Alfonso Lanier. This, again, was admitted by Rowse. And yet he felt so strongly that Emilia had to be Shakespeare's Dark Lady that he cast about for... Pen" book and again admire your skill in setting piece to piece, words, phrases, and reconstructing a complete picture, with recognizable human features. I am entirely convinced by your argument for William Herbert - in my garden you'll get two kinds of marjoram, sweet marjoram, and 'knotted marjoram' and of course you are absolutely right about the tight-curled hair! It would help if academics ever ... am so glad you have read most of it and find it skilful scholarship. I think my most solid contribution comes in the last part, which is concerned with "A Worthier Pen". If I have convinced you of William Herbert, it's surely something accomplished. You consider my "Anastasia" "rather a featureless young lady", but don't you believe it is some achievement to have given, if not "a local habitation", ...
... construction 245 linguistic adventurousness of 284 metrical and rhythmical effects 53, 109,169,215 monosyllables 111,188,349 technique of 6,244 Shāh-Nāmāh 60 Shakespeare, William 42,164,166, 188,205,230,237 Shelley 23,42,67,70,197,334,367 siddha 303,304 silence 87,228,265 of mind 344 Sophocles 205 soul description 115 evolving 81... Vijnana 247 Virat 99 Virgil 57,186,205,258 Vishnu's Garuda 307 Vision, power of poet 162 vital 189 plane 209 vyakta 302 Vyasa 60,66,182,205,213 W Wordsworth 52,197,266,367 World Religion 272 Y Yeats, W.B. 30,33,34,125,197,367 yoga aesthetic 200 aim of 6 Integral 6,58 Kundalini 115 poetry and 77,342,347 ...
... associates Romanticism above all with "the grotesque". Christianity, with its sense of Sin, is said to have brought melancholy into the world by making man realise the paradox of his imperfect nature: as William Watson puts it - Magnificent out of the dust we came, And abject from the spheres. With the melancholy sense of that paradox grew up the sense of the grotesque and hence the habit of mingling... reported to have bespattered each other's faces with the ink on their pens! Romanticism therefore is, to Hugo, really Truthfulness, "la verite". And yet, questions Lucas, what is grotesque in Wordsworth's Highland Maid or Keats's La Belle Dame Sans Merci or Musset' s Nuits or Yeats's Innisfree, poems which all critics have declared to breathe the utmost Romanticism? Or, still within the Hugoesque... "with his Messianic broodings and his passionate Dido", Catullus "the Roman Burns'', Propertius ''the Roman Rossetti'' . 7 In giving examples of Romantic lines, Lucas 8 does not only mention Wordsworth's Lady of the Mere Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. He finds the typical Romantic atmosphere in that reticently emotional line of Dante's where Francesca of Rimini, after ...
... have them, I'd like to cling to them. Then after this frivolous introduction, I'll come to the serious part, otherwise I'll be like the priest saying to another: "You rise by 167 "William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" (published 1807). Page 116 your gravity and I sink by my levity." 168 (Laughter) Well, I am trying to keep a balance... breath, no wind, nothing at all, nothing stirs. The trees -quiet. Even the houses are congealed into a sort of a trance. The nice, tender buds, the young leaves, so quietly beautiful. And I feel what Wordsworth has said in his bright sonnet "Westminster Bridge" 167 - I suppose you remember the last two lines: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still ...
... the human side, if you like. So, one day, Dr. Manilal asked Him about the accident, when Sri Aurobindo led him to the subject. Sri 271 From "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" (1798) by William Wordsworth. Page 221 Aurobindo said: "It may be then this 'utkata karma that caused my accident!" According to Jain Shastra, 'utkata karma' is a karma that cannot be avoided. Then ...
... adulthood too. I shall now read out to 54 Pranam is the act of bowing down in humility and praying in a spirit of surrender and supplication. Page 30 you this poem by George William Russell (or A.E.), called "Krishna". In the poem, you will find a series of scenes ranging from his childhood to his supreme divinity: I paused beside the cabin door and saw the King of Kings... I confessed to you the other day my weakness for green vegetables; by putting such lovely flowers on the table, you'll help me to outgrow this weakness and uphold my nature. Only I can't say like Wordsworth (I might misquote, that's my habit!): To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 51 In my previous talk, you remember, I ...
... authorship put in the form of ciphers. One cryptogram proved this authorship perfectly — except that by ill luck it did so in nineteenth-century English! Recently a book by two professional cryptologists, William and Elizabeth Friedman, Page 390 went into a thorough examination of all the claimed ciphers and cryptograms and proved them spurious. Reading the reviews of this book I wondered if... know how to put into their poems not their intellectuality but the passion of thought that often goes with it. Lucretius and Dante were such men, Milton also in his own manner. Shelley was another. Wordsworth too. In them thought was passionate, in Shakespeare passion was thinking. He seems time and gain to set up fireworks of ideas, but actually we have ideas thrown up by a seethe of sensation and emotion ...
... colouring shows a touch of the minutely marking as well as luxurious painter eye of the young Tennyson, and not infrequently the phrasing bears an aspect of traditional poeticism from Spenser down to William Watson, which especially the rebellious modernist ear may dub wearying. In a semi-modernist manner we get at a few moments an affinity to Gerard Manley Hopkins. But if we look deeper and hear more... Aurobindo's inner life. If we wish to find among English-writing poets a match to that pair of lines ending with the full yet far-away gong of the word "alone" we shall have to pick out from Wordsworth his noblest music. Curiously enough the verses that equal them are just the two that also end with the same word's long rounded o and bell-like consonance — the lines on Newton's face in the bust... The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. And here it may be significant to mention that the terminal "alone" is not confined to Wordsworth's and Chadwick's Upanishadic pictures. It seems to have some innate affinity with the peak utterance of the Spirit, for it crowns too one of Page 147 Sri Aurobindo's own poetic ...
... world." 19 Sri Aurobindo writes about Blake's creative process that "he did not let his mind disfigure what came I from spiritual vision and audition! by trying to make 19 Kathleen Raine, William Blake, p. 7. Page 478 it intellectual. He transcribed what he saw and heard." Sri Aurobindo easily meets the charge of obscurity that is generally levelled against Blake's poetry:... hears the throb of the heart personal; Sri Aurobindo hears, besides, the throb of the heart cosmic. The Romantic's art is generally uncontrolled; Sri Aurobindo's is classic in a higher sense. Wordsworth's Prelude tries to be an epic but remains a mere lyric, an enraptured memory of personal involvement in the phenomenon of the physical fading away into the inffeble and the transcendental. ...
... averse to, the small spot of appreciation will spread. A lover of Wordsworth like you must know that at times a poet has to create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed. The very volumes in which such masterpieces as Tintern Abbey and the Immortality Ode appeared drew from Jeffries the crushing verdict: "This will never do!" Wordsworth has grown so much a part of your being that I am sure you will... mysterious self of the Bhagavad Gita and other texts of course. I feel that if you were to show Sri Aurobindo a sparrow, he would say, 'That's nothing, I will show you a super-bird.' To which I, Tagore, William Blake, would reply, 'I don't need a super-bird, this is the Creation that God found good.' Meanwhile your book on Mallarme arrived yesterday and I look forward very much to reading it. I... poet's task but to reveal that world, in the midge's dance, in Traherne's pebbles on the path, or in Tagore's morning sparrow? As for that superwoman Aurobindo's Savitri, without citing Wordsworth's Woman not too great or good For human nature's daily food, here is dear Edwin Muir's poem to his wife Willa, Page 78 Yes, yours, my love, is the right human ...
... from Spenser downwards and which has nothing unpoetic about it except that twentieth-century poets do not frequendy employ it should be criticised at just the place where it is most appropriate. When William Watson spoke of a time Pendulous 'twixt the gold hour and the grey he was certainly not propping himself in amateur versification: the word is subtly expressive of brief delicate suspension... metrical skill, and a sound poetic sensitivity based on the classics and much akin to that of many of the more conservative masters. Sometimes it is as if Sri Aurobindo had taken the cream of Milton, Wordsworth and Tennyson and stirred it to boiling point in the cauldron of his Muse. There are some first-rate passages of blank verse, e.g.: Only he listens to the voice of his thoughts, his heart's... his rather cursory acquaintance with Sri Aurobindo's poetry and a certain haste in making up his mind. When he pictures Sri Aurobindo as sometimes stirring and boiling the cream of Milton, Wordsworth and Tennyson in his own Muse's cauldron, it is not easy to agree even if the critic's Page 404 statement be applied to Sri Aurobindo's early work which is not that of a full-fledged ...
... Page 477 129. Book VI (Jaico Edition, 1949, p. 104). 130. St. Matthew, I, HI and St. Luke, IV, I. 13; also see, for a modern version, William Faulkner's A Fable (Random House, 1954), pp. 341-56. 131. Paradise Regained, Book IV, II. 368-72. 132. ibid., 1.576. 133. Julius Caesar, II, i, 11. 66-9. ... Preface to Laureate of Peace, p. vii. 85. The Crown ofLife,p.225. 86. Coleridge on Imagination, p. 163. 87. People, Places and Books, p. 80. 88. Cf. William James: "In mystical literature such self-contradictory phrases as 'dazzling obscurity', 'whispering silence', 'teeming desert', are continually met with. They prove that not conceptual speech, but... is sympathy and pity for the affairs of men." (The English Epic and Its Background, p. 80). A clear echo, "touch of tears in mortal things," occurs on p. 87 of Savitri and an echo of Wordsworth, "And great burning thoughts voyaged through the sky of mind", on p. 88. 48. Savitri, p. 924. 49. ibid., p. 924. 50. Selected Poems (1939), p. 5. 51 ...
... contented, happy, and free as Nature has permitted. Do you think that a child who has thus reached his fifteenth year has lost the years preceding? From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, trans. William H. Payne (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1904). References 1. The same incident is related by Montaigne: "Alexander having been informed by a letter from Parmenion that Philip, his most... elevated the morals of France, inspired the Romantic movement and the French Revolution, influenced the philosophy of Kant and Schopenhauer, the plays of Schiller, the novels of Goethe, the poems of Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, the socialism of Marx, the ethics of Tolstoi, and, altogether, had more effect upon posterity than any other writer or thinker of that eighteenth century in which writers were... Voltaire. Rousseau's influence on Western civilization has been immense. He was the father of the Romantic movement that swept across Europe in the nineteenth century and inspired the poetry of Wordsworth. Thomas Jefferson derived the Declaration of Independence partly from Rousseau, and it is said that Napoleon ascribed the French Revolution more to Rousseau than to any other writer. Not least ...
... : Perhaps, because he was the poet Laureate. Sri Aurobindo : Generally Poet-Laureates are uninteresting : Very few are like Wordsworth and Tennyson. Masefields' poems are Georgian rhetoric. Disciple : Do you remember Volsung Saga by William Morris? Sri Aurobindo : It is a very good poem; it is an exercise in Epic. I remember his Earthly Paradise which is exceedingly ...
... familiar, indeed so unmistakable but that row of Indian stamps stood in such a stark contradictory posture of suggestion that if 1 were to poetise the situation I would speak of my state of mind in William Watson's words on a certain phase of the evening as Pendulous 'twixt the gold hour and the grey. The moment I opened the envelope it was all "the gold hour" - the sight of the latest beautifully... her struggle for liberty and which had communicated to her many a modern ideal, one of the chief having been the ideal of national independence and unshackled individuality so dear, according to Wordsworth, to the English-speaking heart: We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake... And it is most meaningful that the choice of August 15, 1947, a birthday of Sri... somehow realisable, even if it appears to our common state as "beyond hope", a fanciful figure of "wishful thinking". We have to cleave to these ideals as though without them we could not live, just as Wordsworth felt that We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. It makes me happy to know that you, my friend, have been ...
... experience and mystical realization are here concerned. Mr. Alvares appears to be congenitally incapable even of asking whether any value can be attached to what William James broadly termed "the varieties of religious experience". How, with such a handicap, is he to take anything Aurobindonian by the right end... epithet provides a connection with the idea of a voice, thus preventing the catachresis from being too startling. If Milton could give us "blind mouths" and Wordsworth Thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, is there very much to object to in this visioned voice? In Sri ...
... because its termination is singular-sounding to the English ear. Adopting the literal meaning, he uses in certain contexts the expression "Living Creatures" for his Zoas. 8. Vide W. P. Witcutt's "William Blake and Modern Psychology" in John O'London's Weekly, April 4, 1947, pp. 317-318. Page 141 note that Blake himself used "Thought" in different ways and not invariably as a synonym... Berkeley's "Siris"). 31. Ibid., p. 533 (Milton, II, 40, 11.36-37). 32. Ibid., p. 4% ( ibid., I, 15, 1.11). 33. Ibid., p. 682 (Jerusalem, III, 52). 34. Op. cit., p. 384. 35. William Blake (Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans Green & Co., London, New York, Toronto), 1951, p. 25. 36.In The Divine Vision, p. 48, fn. 1. Page 146... and God's war (wrath-fire) against him and God's ultimate 140. Signatura Rerum and Other Discourses (Everyman's Library, London), p. III, Ch. X, 14 (from the translation of Boehme's works by William Law, first published in 4 vols., 1764-1781). 141. Ibid., p. 215 (Ch. XIV, 23). Page 182 expulsion of him from Heaven - is implicit here. And when Boehme says that God's "love-fire ...
... 140. 2. Cf. S. Foster Damon: "...the works of Milton influenced Blake more than any other book except the Bible" ("Blake and Milton" in The Divine Vision, Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto [London], 1957, p. 95). Also Northrop Frye: "Blake...was brought upon the Bible and on Milton" ("Blake After Two Centuries", op. cit., p. 62). Page 53... manipulated as evidence of Trinitarian-ism, Anti-Trinitarianism, a Trinity of modes or one of mani- 156. The Great Argument (Princeton), 1941. 157. Op. cit., p. 12. 158. Milton and Wordsworth (Cambridge) 1938, p. 98. 159. Op. cit.. pp. 22-38. 160. Ibid., pp. 25, 26. Page 101 festations. But he does not wish his dogma to obtrude. It did not obtrude with Newton ...
... admission about the creedal slogans does not really push him appreciably far from the epoch of Matthew. For the earliest of the slogans come in the Old Roman Baptismal Creed which took shape, as William Barclay 72 says, "not long after AD 100" and "bears the closest possible resemblance" to the later expressions. Nor, in fact, are these slogans the first clear signs of early Christianity's awareness... both their Jewish and their Hellenistic backgrounds and it is specially active in the Jews' outlook on the Holy Spirit's part in human procreation. Brown has failed to notice that outlook. William Barclay 97 puts the matter very well: "The Jews believed that no child was ever born without the Spirit of God. Since a child is not born from every act of intercourse when a child is born, the... with all who in the past or in the present have longed and looked for the "Secret Splendour". The books that meant much to you were my own boon companions - Plato and Marcus Aurelius and Spinoza, Wordsworth and Shelley and Swinburne and many others. I studied Roman Catholic thought with great interest, starting with St. Augustine and ending with Chesterton's Everlasting Man and Papini's book on ...
... SURPRISES—Joan E. Cass 53.THAT INATTENTIVE BOY 54.ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE—A Greek Legend 55.MY BROTHER, MY BROTHER—Norah Burke 56.THE LAST LEAF—O. Henry 57.THE LITTLE BLACK BOY—William Blake 58.NO TIME FOR FEAR—Philip Yancey 59.MY STRUGGLE FOR AN EDUCATION—Booker T. Washington 60.THE POSTMASTER—Rabindra Nath Tagore STORIES FROM THE WEST 1.THE GHOST... and learning and given also a story of a Sufi teacher. Illustrating how he tests his pupils and how a pupil first failed and ultimately succeeds. We have also, among other illustrations, spoken of Wordsworth, his days of studentship, how he sought the company of nature and communion with nature to learn from her. We have then taken a text from Rousseau which speaks of "holding the hand of the pupil" ...
... world is deficient. It is like a very realistic optical illusion, as realistic as the broken appearance of a stick dipped in water, and just as erroneous. We must "cleanse the doors of perception," as William Blake said, and Nirvana helps us to do just that, albeit a bit radically. Usually, we see a three-dimensional world with a multitude of objects and beings separated from one another, the way the... to our heart, for which the poem, the canvas, or the sonata are only more or less adequate transcriptions. The higher one rises, the purer, more luminous, vast, and powerful is the vibration. When Wordsworth says: And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face... , the vibration is almost palpable, so strong is its presence. Yet this is not an illumined vibration; it does not... line by Leopardi does not owe its greatness to the meaning but to that something so subtly more than the meaning, which quivers behind it: Insano indegno mistero delle cose. Or this line by Wordsworth: Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. And Sri Aurobindo also cited Rimbaud: Million d'oiseaux d'or, o future Vigueur! Poetry is restored to its true role, which is not to ...
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