Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Fragment ID: 20301

Miltonism? Surely not. The Miltonic has a statelier more spreading rhythm and a less direct more loftily arranged language. Miltonically I should have written not

The Gods above and Nature sole below

Were the spectators of that mighty strife¹

but

Only the Sons of Heaven and that executive She

Watched the arbitrament of the high dispute.

1936

¹ P. 13.

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