SRI AUROBINDO

The Future Poetry

and Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art

Bibliographical Note

The Future Poetry was first published as a series of essays in the Arya from 1917 to 1920. Sri Aurobindo thought of revising it before giving it the form of a book. He wished to add even a few chapters, especially dealing with the Metaphysicals and the Modern Poets. He was not able to do more than write a few paragraphs supplementary to matter already treated. Although these have been incorporated in their proper places the book first brought out in 1953 remains for practical purposes a reprint of the original essays.

Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art has been added here as a separate part of the volume for the purposes of the Centenary Edition. These letters, originally written to disciples, were first published in book-form in 1949 as Letters of Sri Aurobindo, Third Series, by the Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay. The present edition has been revised and considerably enlarged by the inclusion of a large number of additional letters.