Sri Aurobindo. The Future Poetry

AVAILABLE EDITIONS:
	Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Vol. 9 The Future Poetry and letters on poetry, literature and art.- Popular edition.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972.- 562 p.
►	The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo: set in 37 volumes. Vol. 26 Sri Aurobindo. The Future Poetry // The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo: Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 26.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1997.- 401 p.
	The Future Poetry was first published serially in the monthly review Arya between December 1917 and July 1920 in thirty-two instalments. Sri Aurobindo wished to revise the Arya chapters before republishing them and twice undertook this task. The edition SABCL of 1971 is practically a reprint of the Arya chapters (i.e. without revision by Sri Aurobindo). Volume 26 of CWSA contains text of The Future Poetry revised by Sri Aurobindo.

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The Future Poetry
Part One
I. The Mantra
II. The Essence of Poetry
III. Rhythm and Movement
IV. Style and Substance
V. Poetic Vision and the Mantra
VI. The National Evolution of Poetry
VII. The Character of English Poetry – 1
VIII. The Character of English Poetry – 2
IX. The Course of English Poetry – Chaucer and the Poetry of External Life
X. The Course of English Poetry – Elizabethan Drama. Shakespeare and the Poetry of the Life-Spirit
XI. The Course of English Poetry – 3
XII. The Course of English Poetry – 4
XIII. The Course of English Poetry – 5
XIV. The Movement of Modern Literature – 1
XV. The Movement of Modern Literature – 2
XVI. The Poets of the Dawn – 1
XVII. The Poets of the Dawn – Byron and Wordsworth
XVIII. The Poets of the Dawn – 3
XIX. The Victorian Poets
XX. Recent English Poetry – 1
XXI. Recent English Poetry – 2
XXII. Recent English Poetry – 3
XXIII. Recent English Poetry – 4
XXIV. New Birth or Decadence?
Part Two
I. The Ideal Spirit of Poetry
II. The Sun of Poetic Truth
III. The Breath of Greater Life
IV. The Soul of Poetic Delight and Beauty
V. The Power of the Spirit
VI. The Form and the Spirit
VII. The Word and the Spirit
VIII. Conclusion
Appendixes to The Future Poetry
New Ways in English Literature: Review
Appendix II
Appendix III
On Quantitative Metre
On Quantitative Metre	1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5
The Reason of Past Failures
Metre and the Three Elements of English Rhythm
A Theory of True Quantity
The Problem of the Hexameter
Poems in Quantitative Metres
Ocean Oneness
Trance of Waiting
Flame-Wind
The River
Journey’s End
The Dream Boat
Soul in the Ignorance
The Witness and the Wheel
Descent
The Lost Boat
Renewal
Soul’s Scene
Ascent (1). The Silence
Ascent (2). Beyond the Silence
The Tiger and the Deer
Ilion

Note 1. During the long history of publication of Sri Aurobindo's works, their texts were modified by editors here and there, so now we have several variants of the same text when one is — more likely — authentic, but the others — not quite. Still, while we are not sure, which variant is authentic, we, at least, have to be aware about the fact of such variations. For this purpose we compared texts of different editions and provided differing places with appropriate footnotes in our files. (Moreover, this symbol by symbol comparison allows to avoid misprints of scanning and OCR procedures.)

To avoid overloading of the texts by footnotes, we ignored differences of register, punctuation, paragraphs, too frequent or permanent differences, variants of languages or transliterations of the same word (for example, in one edition the word printed in Latin, in another – in Devanagari), sometimes — variants of proper names. Also we did not made any footnotes in cases of distinct misprints of typographers – just corrected them (i.e. letter O and symbol zero 0 and so on).

In the Contents above, opposite every work (to the right from date of its writing or first publication) we indicated compared edition:

¹ Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 1.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1973.- 920 p.

² Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 12, No2 (1988, December)

⁴ Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 7, No1 (1983, April).- 97 p.

⁵ Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 2, No1 (1978, April).- 108 p.

⁶ Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 5, No2 (1981, December).- 112-212 p.

⁷ Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 27.- Supplement.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 511 p.

⁸ Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 17.- The Hour of God and other writings.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 406 p.

⁹ Compared with text of earlier publication (we have not exact bibliphy information on this publication — text was found in Internet).

¹⁰ Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 3, No2 (1979, December).- 123-233 p.

¹¹ Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 14, No1 (1990, April).- 115 p.

¹² Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 8, No1 (1984, April).- 124 p.

Note 2. In cases, when independent texts were joined at book in a single block with common title as if it were one work, we separated them — one independent text per one file. To reader, who find this arrangement not quite convenient, we may recommend the all book in a single file (see above).

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