Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7382

Contemporary Judgment of Poetry [4]

I remain convinced that fame is a fluke. Even a settled literary fame seems to be a very fluctuating affair. Who gave a thought to Blake or Donne in former times, when I was in England, for instance? But now they bid fair to be reckoned among the great poets. I see that Byron is in the depths, the quotations for Pope and Dryden are rising; it was very different in those days.

5 February 1932