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 Savitri

On the Composition of the Poem. Letters of 1936 – 1937 [1]

Sorry to impose on you this labour of Penelope, but new lines — unless the lightning-footed comes through whole-bodied,— generally need three or four revisions before I am reasonably satisfied, so again these scratchings and trans-shipments. I hope the latter won’t baffle you.

10 November 1936