Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
Letter ID: 499
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
October 8, 1934
(...) Suhrawardy’s1 opinion about Harin’s poetry does not surprise me. The latest craze in English is either for intellectual 
quintessence or sensation (not creations) of life, while any emotional and ideal element in poetry is considered as a deadly sin. But beautiful poetry remains beautiful poetry even if it is not in the current style. And after all Yeats and A.E. are still there in spite of this new fashion of the last one or two decades.
1 Sahid Suhrawardy, a Bengali poet and a cultured man, was Dilip’s friend. He graduated from the Calcutta University with honors in 1910 and from Oxford in 1914. He became secretary to the Artistic section of the League of Nations. Later on he became Nizam Professor of Indian Studies at Vishvabharati, and then Bageswari Professor of Comparative Arts at Calcutta University. He gave brilliant lectures from 1923 to 1943. After Partition, he went to Pakistan and became Pakistan’s ambassador to Spain in 1955.