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26 The Future Poetry VOLUME26 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO ©SriAurobindoAshramTrust1997 Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTEDININDIA The Future Poetry with On Quantitative Metre ii Publisher’s Note The Future Poetry was first published in the monthly review Arya in thirty-two instalments between Decem- ber1917andJuly1920.Theseinstalmentswerewritten immediately before their publication. SriAurobindotwiceundertooktoreviseTheFuture Poetry. During the late 1920s or early 1930s he revised seventeenchapters;in1950hedictatedchangesandad- ditions to twenty chapters, thirteen of which had been revisedearlier.Theworkofrevisionwasnevercompleted andTheFuturePoetrywasnotpublishedintheformof a book during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime. In 1953 the Arya text of The Future Poetry was brought out as a book, with only two passages of the later revision added. In 1985 an edition incorporating all available revision was published. OnQuantitativeMetrewaspublishedin1942asan appendixtoCollectedPoemsandPlaysandasaseparate book. It was written shortly before its publication. This edition of The Future Poetry with On Quan- titative Metre has been checked against the author’s manuscripts and the original printed texts. CONTENTS THE FUTURE POETRY PART ONE Chapter I The Mantra 3 Chapter II The Essenceof Poetry 11 Chapter III Rhythm and Movement 19 Chapter IV Style and Substance 25 Chapter V Poetic Vision and the Mantra 31 Chapter VI The National Evolution of Poetry 41 Chapter VII The Character of English Poetry–1 48 Chapter VIII The Character of English Poetry–2 53 Chapter IX The Course of English Poetry–1 Chaucer and the Poetry of External Life 63 Chapter X The Course of English Poetry–1 Elizabethan Drama Shakespeareand the Poetry of the Life-Spirit 72 CONTENTS Chapter XI The Course of English Poetry–3 83 Chapter XII The Course of English Poetry–4 90 Chapter XIII The Course of English Poetry–5 100 Chapter XIV The Movement of Modern Literature–1 107 Chapter XV The Movement of Modern Literature–2 116 Chapter XVI The Poets of the Dawn–1 124 Chapter XVII The Poets of the Dawn–2 Byronand Wordsworth 128 Chapter XVIII The Poets of the Dawn–3 138 Chapter XIX The Victorian Poets 148 Chapter XX RecentEnglish Poetry–1 160 Chapter XXI RecentEnglish Poetry–2 172 Chapter XXII RecentEnglish Poetry–3 183 Chapter XXIII RecentEnglish Poetry–4 192 Chapter XXIV New Birth or Decadence? 205 CONTENTS THE FUTURE POETRY PART TWO Chapter I The Ideal Spirit of Poetry 217 Chapter II The Sun of Poetic Truth 227 Chapter III The Breath of Greater Life 241 Chapter IV The Soul of Poetic Delight and Beauty 254 Chapter V The Power of the Spirit 268 Chapter VI The Form and the Spirit 276 Chapter VII The Word and the Spirit 287 Chapter VIII Conclusion 302 Appendixes to The Future Poetry 311 ON QUANTITATIVE METRE On Quantitative Metre 317 Poems in Quantitative Metres 367 4

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