<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">A very quick scroll- through of the Washington SU Catalog has yielded the following broadly relevant titles. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Radhakrishnan, S. An Idealist View of Life, Being the Hibbert Lectures for 1929. London: Allen & Unwin, 1932. LW—annotations.</span>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Tattvabhushan, Sitanath. Sankaracharya: His Life and Teachings. Trans. by Sita Nath Dutta. 3d ed. Calcutta: Society for the Resuscitation of Indian Literature, 1899.</span>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">I also looked for but did not find the following: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">
<span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The Ten Principal Upanishads Put into English by Shree<span> </span></span><em style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;color:rgb(106,106,106);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Purohit</em><span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>Swami and W. B. Yeats. Faber and Faber, London 1937.</span>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Though some passages in "Times Passes" and in <i>The Waves</i> may broadly remind some (mainly Indian?) readers of Indian scriptures, especially the Upanishads, I do not get the sense that VW had actually read any of them, to say nothing of such reading being reflected in her own writings. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">However, I do dimly recall finding in the Monks House Papers at the Sussex U Library (in 1972 or thereabouts) a fan letter to VW upon the publication of <i>The Waves</i> saying that the novel reminded this reader of the upanishads, and as I recall, it wasn't an Indian correspondent who wrote that. In my view, such vague remembrances are no more than impressionist "mnemonic irrelevancies" in IA Richards' phrase. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">But if Ruth does turn up closer parallels between VW's works and the Indian scriptures -- and much of her previous work in many fields is full of her being able to substantiate tenuous-seeming connections! -- that would open a new window of interpretation. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Finally, could anyone please help me find the chapter and verse for an obiter dictum by VW that I have cherished for long which goes something like: "Both India and Italy exercise the superfluous imagination." My supervisor Frank Bradbrook used to say that VW sent her characters off to India to get them out of the way for a while or to die. And of course there aren't too many of those either. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">All best. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="monospace,monospace">Harish Trivedi</font> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 February 2018 at 23:17, Anne Fernald via Vwoolf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The first place I always go for questions like this is to the <a href="http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/onlinebooks/woolflibrary/woolflibraryonline.htm" target="_blank">Washington State University catalog of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's library</a>. That's a reliable, but not entirely complete, clue.</div><div><br></div><div>No Bhagavad Gita there. The books on India are agricultural and political, so, as intriguing a suggestion as this is, I don't immediately see strong evidence for the speculation.</div><div><br></div><div>Others may have found clues elsewhere, however.</div><div><br></div><div>A</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Eileen Barrett via Vwoolf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>My friend Ruth Vanita asked if anyone on the Woolf list might have the answer. Here's her question:<br><br>Where can I find a thoroughgoing report on Woolf's reading/library? I want to find out whether she had read the Gita. Given that it had been translated and circulated for so long before her time, and so many writers, including Eliot and Yeats, were immersed in it, it seems likely that she did. But I'd like to be sure, and also to find out which translation she read if she did.<br><br></div>Thanks in advance,<br><br></div>Eileen<span class="m_-1855643254920788460HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div><div><div><br><br clear="all"><div><br>-- <br><div class="m_-1855643254920788460m_-6526552358248944805gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Eileen Barrett, Ph.D.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">MB 2583</span></div>Professor and Graduate Coordinator</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www20.csueastbay.edu_class_departments_english_&d=DwMFaQ&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=k1OoytuRmrU4MiIwbI-7ElFohPGR5Vr0JxDyMjG9DsI&m=VwUaxtbqeIyOpSTMbz4nU8D8aGtQwRUDyWjr4ULHQHU&s=bOMTKMLPGe2PkZDgoRw9qBoHJlQBM3ZyaSTNd14NeK0&e=" target="_blank">Department of English</a><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">"California is – and must always be – a refuge of justice and opportunity for people of all walks, talks, ages and aspirations – regardless of how you look, where you live, what language you speak, or who you love." <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sd24.senate.ca.gov_news_2016-2D11-2D09-2Djoint-2Dstatement-2Dcalifornia-2Dlegislative-2Dleaders-2Dresult-2Dpresidential-2Delection&d=DwMFaQ&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=k1OoytuRmrU4MiIwbI-7ElFohPGR5Vr0JxDyMjG9DsI&m=VwUaxtbqeIyOpSTMbz4nU8D8aGtQwRUDyWjr4ULHQHU&s=d4nZCM3zVMspU3pUXCkPOs-PpBcjnKQNkbZ5uMN50tc&e=" target="_blank">Joint Statement from California Legislative Leaders</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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