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 1938 [5]

Can’t you send some of your poems? You owe me one, you know.

What poems? I am not writing any, except occasionally my long epic, Savitri, which cannot see the light of day in an embryonic {{0}}state.[[This letter was written to a different correspondent from the one who was the recipient of all the other letters in this section. — Ed.]]

15 May 1938