Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2221

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

October 30, 1938

“Stubborn clay” – influence of Meredith?

Meredith? I don’t know. By the way, I forgot to answer your comments on your reading the other day [27.10.38]. I thought you wanted to read the modern poets in order to help your style, so I suggested the names. Naturally their substance has little kinship with the things we try to write. They say Thompson’s has, but I don’t know his poetry very well.

By the way, do you know why Arjava has stopped writing?

He wrote a beautiful poem the other day – but his inspiration has become fitful and far between.