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THOMAS J. BATA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY India and the Romantic Imagination India and the Romantic Imagination JOHN DREW DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD NEW YORK 1987 Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford 0X2 6DP OXFORD NEW YORK TORONTO DELHI BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI PETALING JAYA SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN MELBOURNE AUCKLAND and associates in BEIRUT BERLIN IBADAN MEXICO CITY NICOSIA © Oxford University Press 1987 Typeset by Taj Services Ltd, Noida, U.P. Printed by Rekha Printers Private Ltd, New Delhi 110020 and published by R. Dayal, Oxford University Press YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi 110001 Contents Preface ix Acknowledgements xi List of Abbreviations xiii Note on Orthography xvi PART I THE PASSAGE OUT 1 INTRODUCTORY ‘The Road from Colonus’ and Death in the Green Tree 3 CHAPTER ONE E. M. Forster: Professor Godbole and a Passage to Alexandria 9 FORSTER AND NEO PLATONISM 11 GODBOLE’S NEO PLATONISM AND HIS SONG 15 BEYOND HUMANISM 19 THE SPIRIT BEHIND THE FRIEZE? 27 GODBOLE’S VISION—AND FORSTER’S 31 FORSTER: SCEPTICAL OR SPECULATIVE? 37 A PASSAGE BEYOND ALEXANDRIA? 4l CHAPTER TWO Sir William Jones: Asiatic Researches and the Platonizing of India 43 JONES’S prose 47 JONES’S POETRY 58 Contents VI THE IMPORTANCE OF JONES’S INDIAN WRITINGS 66 THE DIFFUSION OF JONES’S WORK 70 OTHER ‘PASSAGES’ OF THE TIME 77 CHAPTER THREE Apollonius of Tyana: A Neo-Pythagorean and the Indianizing of Plato 83 THE PASSAGE TO INDIA 87 APROPOS APOLLONIUS AND INDIA: PORPHYRY AND VEGETARIANISM 99 APROPOS APOLLONIUS: PLOTINUS AND THE METAPHYSICAL PASSAGE 101 THE MEANING OF MAGIC 105 THE INDIA OF APOLLONIUS: OTHER ALLUSIONS 109 CHAPTER FOUR Pythagoras: The Esoteric Doctrines of the Brihad Aranyaka 115 PYTHAGORAS IN INDIA: APULEIUS 115 PYTHAGORAS IN INDIA: COLERIDGE AND SCHROEDER 121 THE LOST FIGURE OF PYTHAGORAS 124 YAJNAVALKYA: THE INDIAN PYTHAGORAS 128 PART II THE PASSAGE BACK 141 CHAPTER FIVE Alexander the Great: Indian Ascetics and the Christian Image of Paradise 143 THE INDIAN ASCETICS IN HISTORY AND IN ROMANCE 146 (i) Alexander and the Indian Ascetics 146 (ii) From History to Romance 150 (iii) A Passage from India 152
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