Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 1. On His Poetry and Poetic Method
On Early Translations and Poems

The Hero and the Nymph and Urvasie

On an old advertisement page of the Arya I find: “The Hero and the Nymph, a translation in verse of Kalidasa’s Vikramorvasie.”

Yes, I had forgotten the Hero and the Nymph.

Our library hasn’t got this translation, nor your poem Urvasie, both of which are out of print.

I don’t think I have the Urvasie, neither am I very anxious to have this poem saved from oblivion.

5 February 1931