Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6684

Bengali and English Quantitative Poetry [1]

Nishikanta’s poem in laghu-guru is splendid. But perhaps Girija would say that it is a pure Bengali rhythm, which means I suppose that it reads as well and easily in Bengali as if it were not written on an unusual rhythmic principle. I suppose that must necessarily be the aim of a new metre or metrical principle; it is what I am trying to do with quantitative efforts in English.