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<font size="4">Appendix</font></B></p>
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<b><font size="4">I 
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<b><font size="4">WORDSWORTH*</font></b></P>
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did not come to appreciate the poetry of Wordsworth in my school
days, it happened in college, and to a large extent thanks to
Professor Manmohan Ghose. In our school days, the mind and heart of
Bengali students were saturated with the poetry of Tagore: .</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>In the bower of my youth the love-bird sings,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Wake up, O darling, wake;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Opening thy lids lazy with love,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Wake up, O darling, wake. . .</FONT></P>
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poetry belongs to the type once <SPAN LANG="en-GB">characterised</SPAN>
as follows by our humorous novelist Prabhat Mukherji through one of
his characters, a <I>s<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>dhu,
</I>describing the charms of the Divine Name:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>It has the sweetness and the sugar</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>of <I>sandesh </I>and <I>rasogulla.</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>It is needless to say that to young hearts enraptured by
such language and feeling, Wordsworth's</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray!</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And when I crossed the wild,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I chanced to see at break of day</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The solitary child...<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT>
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Translated from the original Bengali by Sri Sanat Kumar Banerji</FONT></P>
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&quot;Lucy Gray&quot;.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Page &amp;ndash; 230</FONT><BR>
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appear rather dull and dreary, tasteless almost.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Let me in this connection tell you a story. We were then
in college. The Swadeshi movement was in full flood, carrying
everything before it. We the young generation of students had been
swept off our feet. One day, an elder among us whom I used to
consider personally as my friend, philosopher and guide, happened to
pass a remark which rather made me lose my bearings a little. He was
listing the misdeeds of the British in India. &quot;This nation of
shopkeepers!&quot; he was saying, &quot;There is no end to their
trickeries to cheat us. Take, for instance, this question of
education. The system they have set up with the high-sounding title
of 'University' and 'the advancement of learning' is nothing more
than a machine for creating a band of inexpensive clerks and slaves
to serve them. They have been throwing dust into our eyes by easily
passing off useless Brummagem ware with the label of the real thing.
One such eminently useless stuff is their poet Wordsworth, whom they
have tried to foist on our young boys to their immense detriment.&quot;
This remark was no doubt a testimony to his inordinate love of
country. But it remains to be seen how far it would bear scrutiny as
being based on truth.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>For us in India, especially to Bengalis, the first and
foremost obstacle to accepting Wordsworth as a poet would be his
simple, artless and homely manner:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Behold her, single in the field,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Yon solitary Highland lass!</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>And,
as a classic instance of that famous homely diction, the line that
follows:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Will no one tell me what she sings?</FONT></P>
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would' be moved by lines such as these?</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>On the gates of entry to the poetic world of Wordsworth
is engraved this motto:</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>	The
Gods approve</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>	The
depth, and not the tumult, of the soul<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT>&quot;Laodamia&quot;,
74, <I>Poems of the Imagination</I></FONT><I><FONT SIZE=1>.</FONT></I></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2><I>Page &amp;ndash; 231</I></FONT><BR>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>It
is as if the hermitage of old, an abode of peace and quiet,
<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">sa</FONT><I>nta-ras<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>spadam-<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">as</FONT>ramam-idam.
</I>All here is calm and unhurried, simple and natural and
transparent, there is no muddy current of tempestuous upheavals. That
is why the poet feels in his heart as if he were</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>. . . . quiet as a nun</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Breathless with adoration.<sup>1</sup></FONT><BR>
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else</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The winds come to me from the fields of sleep.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Here is an easy, natural, limpid flow, undisturbed in
its movement and yet with a pleasant charm and filled with an
underlying sweetness. But perhaps one has to listen intently to get
at the sweetness and beauty of such lines. They do not strike the
outer ear for they set up no eddies there; the inner hearing is their
base.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>She was a Phantom of delight</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>When first she gleamed; upon my sight<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">²</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Is this not a silent opening of the divine gates of
vision?</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">³</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Do not these words bear us far away on some unknown
wings?</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG="en-GB">Tranquillity</SPAN> and a pleasant
sweetness are then the first doors of entry. Through the second doors
we come to a wide intimacy, an all-pervading unity, where man and
nature have fused into one. This unity and universality breathe
through and inspire such simple yet startling words:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I wandered lonely as a cloud</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>That floats on high o'er vales and hills,<sup>4</sup></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT> &quot;It is a
beauteous Evening, calm and free&quot;, <I>Miscellaneous Sonnets.</I></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">²</FONT>
&quot;She was a Phantom of delight,&quot; <I>Poems if the
Imagination, VIII.</I></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">³</FONT>
&quot;To a Skylark&quot;, <I>Ibid., XXX.</I></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 6pt">4</FONT>
&quot;I wandered lonely as a dud,&quot; <I>Ibid., XII.</I></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Page &amp;ndash; 232</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Or,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her
face.<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Or
else, this easy and natural yet deep-serious utterance carrying the
burden of a mantra:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">²</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Once we cross beyond these second gates we reach an
inner region, a secluded apartment of the soul where poetry assumes
the garb of magic, a transcendent skill lends to words the
supernatural beauty and grace of a magician's art. How often we have
read these lines and heard them repeated and yet they have not grown
stale:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>A voice so thrilling never was heard. . .</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Breaking the silence of the seas</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Among the farthest Hebrides</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Or,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Or hear old Triton blow his wreath<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">é</FONT>d
horn.</FONT></P>
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</P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>This
magic has no parallel, except perhaps in Shakespeare's</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>						Daffodils,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>That come before the swallow dares, and take</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">³</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Sri Aurobindo has referred to another point of greatness
in Wordsworth, where the poetic mind has soared still higher, opening
itself not merely to an intimacy but to the voice of a highest
infinity:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT> &quot;Three years
she Grew,&quot;</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">²</FONT>
&quot;Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour&quot;, <I>Poems
Dedicated to National</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><I>lndepenrknce and Liberty, </I>XIV,</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">³</FONT>
<I>The Winter's Tale, </I>Act IV, Sc. 4.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Page -233</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The marble index of a mind for ever</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>Thus,
with this poet we gain admittance to the very heart, the innermost
sanctuary of poetry where we fully <SPAN LANG="en-GB">realise</SPAN>
what our old Indian critics had laid down as their final verdict,
namely, that the poetic delight is akin to the Delight of Brahman.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But even the moon has its spots, and in Wordsworth the
spots are of a fairly considerable magnitude. Manmohan Ghose too had
mentioned to us these defects. Much of Wordsworth is didactic and
rhetoric, that is, of the nature of preaching, hence prosaic and
non-poetical although couched in verse. Ghose used to say that even
the <I>Ode on the Intimations of Immortality </I>which is so
universally admired is mainly didactic and is by and large rhetoric,
with very little real poetry in it. I must confess however that to me
personally, some of its passages have a particular charm, like</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>	Hath had elsewhere its setting,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And cometh from afar...</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But trailing clouds of glory do we come...</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Atul Gupta had seen perhaps only the adverse side of
Wordsworth. He had marked the heavy hand of the logician,
<I>sth<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">u</FONT>la-hast<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>valepa,
</I>but omitted to see the delicate workmanship of the artist. But a
man's true quality has to be judged by his best performance, and the
best work of Wordsworth is indeed of a very high order.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Matthew Arnold brings out very well the nature of
Words-worth's best work. Wordsworth at his peak, he says, seems to
have surpassed even Shakespeare. He is then no longer in his own
self. Mother Nature herself has taken her seat there and 	she goes on
writing herself through the hands of the poet.<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">²</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>	Breaking the silence of the seas	.</FONT></P>
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the farthest Hebrides,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT> <I>Prelude, </I>III.
II. 62-63.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=2>	<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">²</FONT>
&quot;Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand,
and to</FONT></P>
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for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.&quot;-Matthew
Arnold, <I>Essays in Criticism.</I></FONT><BR>
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else,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn</FONT></P>
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indeed the highest peaks of English poetry.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Sri Aurobindo has said that Vyasa is the most masculine
of poets. Echoing his words we may say that Wordsworth is the most
masculine of English poets. This classification of poets into
&quot;masculine&quot; and &quot;feminine&quot; was made by the poet
Coleridge. &quot;Masculine&quot; means in the first place, <SPAN LANG="en-GB">shorn</SPAN>
of ornament, whereas the &quot;feminine&quot; loves ornament.
Secondly, the masculine has intellectuality and the feminine
emotionalism. Then again, femininity is sweetness and charm,
masculinity implies hard restraint; the feminine has movement, like
the flow of a stream, the play of melody, while the masculine has
immobility, like the stillness of sculpture, the stability of a rock.
This is the difference between the Mahabharata and the Ramayana,
between the styles of Vyasa and Valmiki. This too is the difference
between Wordsworth and Shelley. The Ramayana has always been
<SPAN LANG="en-GB">recognised</SPAN> for its poetic beauty; Valmiki
is our first great poet, <FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT><I>di-kavi.
</I>In the Mahabharata we appreciate not so much the beauty of poetic
form as a treasury of knowledge, on polity and ethics, culture and
spirituality. We consider the Gita primarily as a work of philosophy,
not of poetry. In the same way, Wordsworth has not been able to
capture the mind and heart of India or Bengal as Shelley has done. In
order truly to appreciate Wordsworth's poetry, one must be something
of a meditative ascetic, <I>dhy<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>n<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">i</FONT>,
tapasvi </I>indeed,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>. . . quiet as a nun Breathless</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>with adoration. . .</FONT><BR>
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