Posted in -03-Third-Series-1949 Index-000_Pre_content Index of Contents Letters of Sri Aurobindo (On Poetry and Literature) Third Series Contents Pre-Contents Foreword Section One The Process, Form and Substance of Poetry 1. Three Elements of Poetic Creation. 2. Three Essentials for Writing Poetry. 3. Essence of Inspiration. 4. Poetic Fluency. 5. Inspiration and Effort. 6. Correction by Second Inspiration. 7. Joy of Poetic Creation. 8. Pressure of Creative Formation 9. Form and Substance of Poetry. 10. Rhythm and Significance 11. Types of Perfection in Poetry. 12. Poetic Austerity and Exuberance (1) 13. Poetic Austerity and Exuberance (2) 14. Poetic Austerity and Exuberance (3) 15. Poetic Austerity and Exuberance (4) 16. Epic Greatness and Sublimity 17. Poetic Nobility and Grandeur: Epic and Ballad Movements. 18 Philosophy in Poetry. 19. Mystic Poetry - Philosophising in Poetry-Objection to Repetition 20. Poetic Intuition and Critical Intellect. 21. The Two Parts of the Poetic Creator. 22. Need of Life-Experience for Literary Creation. 23. Relation between the Personal Character and Life-Experience and the Work of an Artist. 24. The Illusion of Realism (1) 25. The Illusion of Realism (2) Section Two Sources of Poetic Inspiration and Vision ―Mystic and Spiritual Poetry 1. Sources of Poetic Inspiration. 2. Vital Poetry. 3. The World of Word-Music 4. Earth-Memory Art–Dream Inspiration 5. Poetry of the Inner Mind and Dynamic Vision 6. Poetic Intelligence and Higher Mind. 7. True Inspiration and Poetic Rhetoric 8. A Personal Appreciation 9. Poetry of the Intuitive Mind. 10. Poetry of Spiritual Vision 11. Mystic and Spiritual Poetry. 12. Mystic Poetry of Higher and Lower Planes. 13. Sunlight and Moonlight Mystic Poetry-Inspiration and Revelation. 14. Symbolic and Mystic Poetry. 15. A Comparison between Arjava's "Totalitarian" and Walter de la Mare's "Listeners". 16. A Comparison between A'S "Pharphar" and Walter de la Mare's "Arabia". 17. Truth behind Poetic Images. 18. Mystic Symbols. 19. Symbolism and Allegory (1) 20. Symbolism and Allegory (2 ) 21. Psychic and Esoteric Poetry. 22. Psychic and Overhead Inspiration 23. Overhead Poetry. 24. Overmind Rhythm and Inspiration 25. The Mantra 26. Overmind and Aesthetics–Critical, Intellect and Mystical Poetry. 27. Use of "High-Light" Words in Spiritual Poetry. 28. Use of Undignified Words in Poetry. 29. Overhead Inspiration and Overmind Aesthesis. 30. Greatness and Beauty on Poetry. Section Three Poetic Rhythm and Technique 1 Two Factors in Poetic Rhythm 2 Importance of Metre and Technique 3 Inspiration and Study of Technique. 4 English Quantitative Verse and Classical, Metres - Melody of English and Bengali Languages. 5 Comments on Milford's Views on Quantity in English Verse. 6 Quantitative Metre in Bengali Poetry. 7 Failure of Early English Hexameter. 8 Accent in English Rhythm. 9 The Alexandrine. 10 Octosyllabic Metre 11 Combination of Iambics and Anapaests. 12 The Problem of Free Verse. 13 Imperfect Rhymes. 14 Bengali Gadya-Chhanda. 15 Invention of New Metres. 16 Unpopularity of New Metres–Cryptic Poetry 17 Comments on some Experiments in Metre (1) 18 Comments on some Experiments in Metre (2) 19 Comments on some Experiments in Metre (3) 20 Comments on some Experiments in Metre (4) 21 Nursery Rhymes and Popular Songs. 22 Difference between a Song and a Poem. 23 Sonnet and Satire Section Four Translation of Poetry 1 Two Ways of Translating Poetry 2 Freedom in Translation 3 Literalness in Translation 4 Importance of Turn of Language in Translation 5 Difficulty of Catching Subtleties in Translation 6 Translation of Prose into Poetry 7 Remarks on Bengali Translation of an English Poem. 8 Remarks on Bengali Translation of "Six Poems" 9 Remarks on Bengali Translation of a Poem of Shelley 10 Shelley's Skylark–Imperfections of Great poets Essential significance of Shelley's Poetry 11 Difficulty of Translating Urdu Songs into English–Preference of Krishna to Rama. Section Five Modern Poetry 1 Contemporary English poetry (1) 2 Contemporary English poetry (2) 3 Contemporary English poetry (3) 4 Latest Trend in English Poetry 5 Modern Art and Poetry 6 Surrealist Poetry (1) 7 Surrealist Poetry (2) Section Six Indo-English Poetry 1 Achievement of Indo-English Poetry–literary Decadence in Europe 2 Future of Indo-English Poetry 3 Mental Theories and Poetic Freedom 4 Pitfalls of Indo-English Blank Verse 5 Practical Suggestions for Writing English Poetry (1) 6 Practical Suggestions for Writing English Poetry(2) 7 Requirements for Writing Good English 8 Current Use of English Language Section Seven Appreciation of Poetry and Art 1 Appreciation of Poetic Value 2 Subjective Element in Criticism of poetry and Art 3 Experience of Beauty 4 Contemporary Judgment of Poetry 5 Abiding Intuition of Poetic and Artistic Greatness 6 Final Verdict on Creative Work 7 Comparison of the Arts 8 Poetry and Novel 9 Musical Excellence and General Culture 10 Comment on Croce's Theory of Aesthetics Section Eight Poetic Creation and Yoga–Utility of Literature, etc. in Sadhana 1 Reading and Poetic Creation and Yoga 2 Poetic Creation and Yoga 3 Silence and Creative Activity 4 Creation by the Word 5 Writing for the Divine 6 Development of Mind and Sadhana 7 Reading and Real knowledge 8 Spiritual Value of Poetry 9 Utility of Literature, etc. in Yoga (1) 10 Utility of Literature, etc. in Yoga (2) 11 Utility of Literature, etc. in Yoga (3) 12 Literature and Change of Nature 13 Novel-Read=> Section Nine Poets–Mystics–Intellectuals 1 The Poet and the Yogi 2 The Poet and the Prophet 3 Born Poet and Genius 4 Genius and Yoga 5 Classification of the World's Greatest Poets (1) 6 Classification of the World's Greatest Poets (2) 7 Goethe and Shakespeare; Homer, Vyasa and Valmiki 8 Importance of the Power of Poetic Expression 9 Blake (1) 10 Blake (2) 11 Yeats and AE 12 Yeats and the Occult (1) 13 Yeats and the Occult (2) 147 D.H. Lawrence (1) 15 D.H. Lawrence (2) 16 D.H. Lawrence and Modern Poetry (1) 17 D.H. Lawrence and Modern Poetry (2) 18 D.H. Lawrence–Human Ego-Centricity–Attitudes towards Human Defects 19 Wordsworth's Realisation 20 Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" 21 Browning 22 Baudelaire 23 Michael Madhusudan 24 Great Prose-Writers 25 Intellectual Capacity of Mystics 26 The Mystic and the Intellectual–Bernard Shaw 27 Estimate of Bernard Shaw 28 Wells–Chesterton–Shaw 29 Shaw as a Creative Mind 30 Bertrand Russell 31 Comment on a Statement of B. Russell 32 Anatole France 33 Bhatkhande