Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge
Wordsworth
वर्ड्सवर्थ
said WORDS-worth
also written: wordsworth, william wordsworth, vardsvarth
Meaning
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English Romantic poet of nature; Iqbal acknowledged that Wordsworth's nature-mysticism helped pull him back from youthful atheism toward a sense of the divine in the world.
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Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the German poet Iqbal deeply admired; his 'West-östlicher Divan' and 'Faust' inspired Iqbal's own East-West dialogue and his Payam-e-Mashriq (Message of the East).
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Bergson
Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher of intuition, duration (durée) and creative evolution (élan vital); Iqbal drew on his dynamic view of time and life in his Reconstruction lectures.