Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1

Letter ID: 237

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

June 1932 (?)

The last sonnet is improved by the changes....

I have as yet only had time to glance through your poem, but it seems to me one of the most beautiful you have written.

I don’t think I was ill-pleased with Anilbaran’s article on Tagore as a poet of suffering – though that is not perhaps the whole of Tagore. But the poet is sensitive to criticism and he took Anilbaran’s stricture on this part of his poetry rather ill, a controversy threatened that was likely to be a little acrimonious – especially as I think he was hurt by the criticism coming from here. That is why I asked Anilbaran not to reply to Tagore’s retort – thinking it more important to preserve kindliness of feeling between him and us than to stress a point that was already sufficiently clear. There was a great necessity for Bengali poetry finding an escape out of the Tagorean atmosphere – that I had always felt – but that was already coming. I agree with... [incomplete].