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-20_Translation – Theory.htm

Section Four   Translation   Translation: Theory   Literalness and Freedom   A translator is not necessarily bound to the exact word and letter of…

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-21_Translation – Practice.htm

Translation: Practice   Remarks on Some Translations   I do not think it is the ideas that make the distinction between European and Indian tongues…

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-22_Inspiration, Effort, Development.htm

Part Two On His Own and Others’ Poetry       Section One   On His Poetry and Poetic Method   Inspiration, Effort, Development  …

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-23_Early Poetic Influences.htm

Early Poetic Influences   Influences on Love and Death   I shall be really happy if you will tell me the way in which you…

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-24_On Early Translations and Poems.htm

On Early Translations and Poems   Translation of the Meghadut   I did translate the Meghadut, but it was lost by the man with whom…

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-25_On Poems Published in Ahana and Other Poems.htm

On Poems Published in Ahana and Other Poems   On Two Translations of Revelation   The rendering of Revelation is even better than the two…

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-26_Metrical Experiments.htm

Metrical Experiments   The Genesis of In Horis Aeternum   Is there some way of keeping the loose swinging gait of anapaests within bounds? If…

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-27_On Some Poems Written during the 1930s.htm

On Some Poems Written during the 1930s   [The first five letters were published together as an appendix to Six Poems of Sri Aurobindo in…

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-28_On Savitri.htm

On Savitri   On the Composition of the Poem Letters of 1931 ­ 1936   You once quoted to me two lines written by yourself:…

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-32_Comments on Some Remarks by a Critic.htm

Comments on Some Remarks by a Critic   You have asked me to comment on your friend Mendonca’s comments on my poetry and especially on…

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