Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7025

A. E.

The substance of A.E.’s poetry is always very good – he is one of the two or three whose poetry comes nearest to spiritual knowledge and experience. He has too a very fine and subtle perception of things – a little more vital élan (of which he seems to have had abundance in his life but not so much in his poetry) and he would have been not only a fine but a very great poet.

11 February 1932