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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) October 1941

1941

Political and social problems confronting the age incidents of everyday life and nature that surrounded him are approached by him in the " light of moral and spiritual principles." On an ordinary landscape or in a simple story he could cast a gleam of the spiritual world beyond and with the power of his " interpenetrating energy of mind " he could perceive " the ideal in the real the spiritua [...] Pierce complain of the poems being a record of his laboratory researches." It is to the credit of Wordsworth that he has been the only poet who took much pains to examine the validity of knowledge by laying bare the workings of his mind to trace to their source the primary laws of human nature - that help man to form moral and spiritual judments and to bring to bear all his knowledge and exp [...] Many of the principles of that school have been adopted by Wordsworth to explain his theory of knowledge and the mysterious faculty of memory but to them he added a good deal of the critical method similar to that of Kant applied something of Platonism learnt at Cambridge and with the help mostly of his penetrating power of imagination and mystical experiences the truth of which we have no rea [...] So he turned from the doctrines of rationalism to one of faith in the purity and natural goodness of the senses that speak not of the complex and the artificial but of simple things and common feelings that appeal directly to the soul. [...] An interest in the thought movement of Germany a revived joy in Nature and the revolutionary zeal to do away with the normal categories of reason in favour of various imaginative principles " ' completed the breach between Wordsworth and the English thinkers and brought him in line with the school of transcendental thought with its " hints of wider law " and " premontions of unthought-of fun
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Pages
106
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Tagore’s Conception of the Destiny of Man and his Mission in Life
1-9 S.K Maitra view
Rabindranath Tagore
10-15 M.M Bhattacharjee view
A New Phase in Rabindranath’s Poetry
16-20 Amiya Chakravarty view
William Wordsworth in Restrospect
21-38 M. Jamil view
Virginia Woolf as Essayist and Critic
39-46 B.K Palit view
Socialist and Fascist Theories of Law
47-56 J.C Acharyya view
Vocational Testing—its Technique
57-64 Sachindra Ghosh view
A Scheme of Financing Universal Primary Education with Special Reference to Assam
65-82 Samarendranath Das view
News and Views
83-88 unknown view
Miscellany
89-95 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
96-98 unknown view
Ourselves
99-100 unknown view

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