Sri Aurobindo

Early Cultural Writings

(1890 — 1910)

Part Two. On Literature
The Poetry of Kalidasa

Appendix

The Seasons [2]

Kalidasa’s authorship of his earliest extant poem has been first questioned in very recent times by a number of European Sanscritists. It is doubtful whether the spirit of modern criticism, restless, revolutionary, and prizing novelty and inventiveness above truth, is superior in all respects to the saner if less subtle outlook of older scholarship.