Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7021

Chesterton [3]

If Chesterton is noble, grand style, epic (Chapman also) – it becomes difficult to deny these epithets to many others also. Even Kipling and Macaulay can put in a claim. What then is the difference between them and Homer, Milton etc.? Only that Homer is polysyllabic (he is not really) and Chesterton monosyllabic?

31 January 1935