Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2213

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

October 16, 1938

By “modern poets” I meant those of the 20th century, i.e. writers who have made a name and are trying to do something new.

I have very little familiarity with the names of modern poets subsequent to A.E. & Yeats and De La Mare, all of whom you know. There are about a hundred of them moderns, Spender + x + y + z + p² etc. Before that they were Hopkins and Fletcher and others and before that Meredith and Hardy and Prancis Thompson. You can tackle any of them you can lay your hands on in the library. Watson and Brooke and other Edwardians & Georgians would not be good for you.