[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.2036 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.2036 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.2036 - **Language:** English ### [c5.2036](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2036) “The poetry of the \*Rig-veda\*,” says Professor Cowell, “is remarkably deficient in that simplicity and natural pathos or sublimity which we naturally look for in the songs of an early period of civilisation. The language and style of most of the hymns is singularly artificial. . . Occasionally we meet with fine outbursts of poetry, especially in the hymns addressed to the dawn, but these are never long sustained; and as a rule we find few grand similes or metaphors.” A similar opinion is expressed by Professor Williams, who finds them “to abound more in puerile ideas than in striking thoughts and lofty conceptions.” - [Previous: c5.2035](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2035) - [Next: c5.2037](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2037) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) ## Cites (1) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2036](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2036) · Pramāṇa