Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Georgian Poetry
The stanzas are not quite successful. [Certain lines] have too much a stamp of what I think was called Georgian poetry – though I suppose it would more properly be called late-Victorian-Edwardian-early-Georgian. The defect of that poetry is that it has a fullness of language which fails to go home – things that ought to be very fine, but miss being so; so much of the poetry of Rupert Brooke as I have seen, for instance, always gives me that impression. In our own language I might say that it is an inspiration which tries to come from the higher mind but only succeeds in inflating the voice of the poetic intelligence.
1 November 1936