Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 1. On His Poetry and Poetic Method
On Early Translations and Poems

The Hero and the Nymph and Baji Prabhou

It is curious how you repeatedly forget that you have so wonderfully Englished Kalidasa’s Hero and the Nymph. Surely it cannot be that you want it to be rejected and forgotten? Its blank verse is excellent, and I shall be very much obliged if out of the three typed copies of it I sent you a couple of years ago you will kindly let me have one. Was this work composed before Love and Death? Does Baji Prabhou also antedate the latter?

Baji Prabhou was written much later. I do not remember just now about the Hero and the Nymph — it might have been earlier, but I am not sure. I shall see about the typed copy of the translation. No, I do not reject it. I had merely forgotten all about it.

5 July 1933