Mitchell ’ s Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke has been called “ the most beautiful group of poetic translations the twentieth century has produced .” William Arrowsmith said that his Sonnets to Orpheus “ instantly makes every other rendering obsolete .” His Book of Job has been called “ magnificent .” His bestselling Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, and Gilgamesh — which are not translations from the original text, but rather poetic interpretations that use existing translations into Western languages as their starting point — have also been highly praised by critics, scholars, and common readers.

The poem explains in simple poetic images one of the messages of the Bhagavad Gita: samatwam, or balance in life ( SAMATWAM YOGA UCCHATE ).

* Sir Charles Wilkins, the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, was born in Frome around 1749.

Sir Charles Wilkins, KH, FRS ( 1749 – May 13, 1836 ), was an English typographer and Orientalist, notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, and as the creator of the first Bengali typeface.

After Sir William Jones, who had encountered it in 1786, announced his " discovery ", it was translated into English by Charles Wilkins, who had made the earliest English translation of the Bhagavad Gita.

Moreover, he adds and states that the soul materializes into an appropriate body whatever the state of the mind one remembers at the time of death ; i. e., at the time of the death, the soul and its subtle body of mind, intelligence and ego, is projected into the womb of a creature, human or non-human that can provide a gross body that is most suitable for the dominant state of the mind of the particular person at the time of death ; note that this passage is similar in meaning as Bhagavad Gita, VIII, verse 6 Such commentaries were provided by Edwin Bryant, Associate Professor of religion at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

The Sun Charioteer: a poetic rendering of Karna's life, his dharma, his friendship and tragedies.

" Sepah " is the poetic Persian rendering for " Army ".

Although the last of these works has come down to us only in a prose version, it contains unmistakable signs of a previous poetic form, and what we possess is really only a rendering into prose similar to the transformations undergone by many of the chansons de geste.

It is therefore certain that the Versus, as well as the Praefatio, attribute to the author of the Heliand a poetic rendering of the Old Testament.

His work is distinguished mainly by its exquisite quality and a poetic rendering of atmosphere.

( A more poetic rendering of the name of Japan during this period was " Empire of the Sun.

* By focusing on symbolic patterns, images, and poetic mantras, the meditant can achieve consciously directed Imaginations that allow sensory phenomena to appear as the expression of underlying beings of a soul-spiritual nature.

By the late 1930s, Thomas was embraced as the " poetic herald " for a group of English poets, the New Apocalyptics.

By placing it among the poetic memories formed from my wanderings in Abruzzi, I wanted to make the viola a kind of melancholy dreamer in the manner of Byron's Childe-Harold.

By Ancient Roman times, the garden of the Hesperides had lost its archaic place in religion and had dwindled to a poetic convention, in which form it was revived in Renaissance poetry, to refer both to the garden and to the nymphs that dwelt there.

By Thomas Carew, Esquire is a collection of lyrics, songs, pastorals, poetic dialogues, elegies, addresses, and occasional poems.

By Old English poetic rules of alliteration the name of the daughter must also begin with a vowel.

* Appendix to Wordsworth's Preface, " By what is usually called poetic diction.

By the end of the 14th century, a poetic form called mantinada became popular ; it was a rhyming couplet of fifteen syllables.

By placing it among the poetic memories formed from my wanderings in the Abruzzi, I wanted to make the viola a kind of melancholy dreamer in the manner of Byron ’ s Childe-Harold.

By the late 13th century, the poetic tradition in France had begun to develop in ways that differed significantly from the troubadour poets, both in content and in the use of certain fixed forms.

* In Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( 1812 – 18 ), Byron describes how the statue requites humanity's debt to Prometheus: " And if it be Prometheus stole from Heaven / The fire which we endure, it was repaid / By him to whom the energy was given / Which this poetic marble hath array'd / With an eternal glory -- which, if made / By human hands, is not of human thought ; / And Time himself hath hallowed it, nor laid / One ringlet in the dust -- nor hath it caught / A tinge of years, but breathes the flame with which ' twas wrought.

By the time of the Revolution, the name Columbia had lost the comic overtone of its " Lilliputian " origins and had become established as an alternative, or poetic name for America.

By combining factual reportage with passages of literary complexity and poetic beauty, Agee presented a complete picture, an accurate, minutely detailed report of what he had seen coupled with insight into his feelings about the experience and the difficulties of capturing it for a broad audience.

By the late 13th century, the poetic tradition in France had begun to develop in ways that differed significantly from the troubadour poets, both in content and in the use of certain fixed forms.

By combining the traditional Kunqu performing art and modern video art techniques, a stage of poetic and simplified scenes is presented in this film.

Among many others, two of the most celebrated writers of the age, Sir John Suckling and William Davenant, paid tribute to Carew, playfully admiring his poetic craftsmanship.

His dissertation, directed by Douglas Bush, was on the poetic development of Sir Philip Sidney.

Though this version of Mark's character was popular in other medieval works, including the Romance of Palamedes and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, modern versions of the Tristan and Iseult legend tend to take their inspiration from the older poetic material, and Mark becomes a sympathetic character once again.

The introduction also makes the case for Lallans as a poetic language, contra Edwin Muir.

In another recorded example, by the Aeolian Quartet in 1976, poetic readings were substituted for the " words ", read by Peter Pears ; these readings were from John Donne ( Introduction ), George Herbert ( Adagio ), Robert Herrick ( Grave e cantabile ), Anon ( 15th century ) ( Grave ), Edith Sitwell ( Largo ), Edwin Muir ( Adagio ) and David Gascoyne ( Lento ), and the final Largo and Earthquake completed the performance.

The press notices were favourable, one reviewer in his enthusiasm going so far as to say that " Swinburne, Arnold and Morris are indulgently treated if we allow them an equal measure of poetic feeling with Kendall ", but comparatively few copies were sold and the publisher made a loss.

He is especially noted today for his translations of other writers ’ poetic works, often improving the poetry of the original, in particular of Albert Giraud ’ s Pierrot Lunaire which forms the Sprechstimme text of Arnold Schoenberg ’ s work of that name.

By 1000 BC ancient civilizations were using technologies that formed the basis of the various branches of chemistry such as ; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.

By a series of complicated stratagems he first succeeded in rendering it impossible for the Borgias to retain their power over the Papal States.

By this reasoning, adding an incompatible belief corrupts the original religion, rendering it no longer true.

When Montenegro re-established secular dynastic succession by the proclamation of princedom in 1851, it did so in favor of the last Prince-bishop, who changed his style from Vladika i upravitelj Crne Gore i Brde " Vladika ( Bishop ) and Ruler of Montenegro and Brda " to Po Bozjoj milosti knjaz i gospodar Crne Gore i Brde " By the grace of God Prince and Sovereign of Montenegro and Brda ", thus rendering his de facto dynasty ( the Petrović-Njegoš family since 1696 ) a hereditary one.

By default, the library will now be hardware accelerated using OpenGL or DirectX rendering backends where appropriate.

By mistakenly rendering them, his translator inadvertently created a new English word, " aleatoric ", which quickly became fashionable ( Jacobs 1966 ).

By providing a second rise in the oven, double-acting baking powders increase the reliability of baked goods by rendering the time elapsed between mixing and baking less critical, and this is the type most widely available to consumers today.

By targeting various demographics, the assembled statistical models provide a rendering of the audiences of any given show, network, and programming hour.

By this time he had begun to demonstrate his genius for rendering surface textures and capturing emotional immediacy.

By extension, " Fog of War " is also used to describe the limited view distance of many first person shooters, where unlimited view is considered either bad for gameplay or, more often, because of technical limitations, in that a Fog of War allows for the rendering of a smaller part of the game area.

By the start of the third film, Smith has managed to copy himself over nearly every humanoid in the Matrix, giving him complete control over the " Core Network " ( the underlying foundation of the inner workings of the Matrix ), thus rendering him immutable by even the Machines themselves.

By then Brazil had already overthrown the Uruguayan government of Aguirre and installed Flores in his stead, rendering Uruguay little more than a Brazilian puppet state.

By the 15th century, the Adoration of the Magi is often a bravura piece in which the artist can display their handling of complex, crowded scenes involving horses and camels, but also their rendering of varied textures: the silk, fur, jewels and gold of the Kings set against the wood of the stable, the straw of Jesus's manger and the rough clothing of Joseph and the shepherds.

By holding the short-ranged attack button down and then releasing it, Pocky does a spinning attack that can hit any enemy around her, while Rocky is able to transform into a statue, rendering him invulnerable to all attacks for a short time while leaving him immobile.

By moving forwards, the batsman is also able to intercept the ball immediately after it has pitched, thus rendering any potentially dangerous lateral movement irrelevant.

By sectioning out large portions of the volume that one considers uninteresting before rendering, the amount of calculations that have to be made by ray casting or texture blending can be significantly reduced.

By 1991, the United Nations had established its Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) and charged it with the task of destroying, removing, or rendering harmless " all chemical and biological weapons and all stocks of agents and all related subsystems and components and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities.

By 1983 Oh, See Lim, with the political problems and many of the original founding members of the association departing ( Ji Han Jae, Myung Jae Nam ), renamed the association by the name first used by Ji, the Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe, with a new preferred English rendering and the new Korea Hapkido Federation was born.

By 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad had reached far enough west that emigrants could reach the Montana gold fields through present-day Idaho, rendering the dangerous Bozeman Trail obsolete.

By the end of October enough tests had been done to show that not only is the distributed rendering of 3D animations possible, it can achieve performance that rivals many commercial render farms.

By the mid 2000s, many indie ( computer ) game developers have also taken the opportunity to make their games open source, thus rendering the group of possible participants much larger depending on the interest a project generates.

By determining which polygons are currently not visible, and not rendering those objects, significant performance improvements can be achieved.