{"id":2456,"date":"2013-07-13T01:41:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:41:44","slug":"01-pre-contents-vol-33-34-savitri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/33-34-savitri\/01-pre-contents-vol-33-34-savitri","title":{"rendered":"-000_Pre_content.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tVOLUMES 33 and 34<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTHE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1997<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPublished by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department<\/p>\n

Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPRINTED IN INDIA<\/p>\n

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Savitri<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\ta Legend and a Symbol<\/b><\/p>\n

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Publisher’s Note<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe writing of Savitri <\/i>extended over much of the
\nlater part of Sri Aurobindo’s life. The earliest known
\n\t\t\tmanuscript is dated 1916. The original narrative poem
\nwas recast several times in the first phase of composition.
\n\t\t\tBy around 1930, Sri Aurobindo had begun to turn it
\ninto an epic with a larger scope and deeper significance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTransformed into “A Legend and a Symbol”,
\nSavitri <\/i>became his major literary work which he continued to
\n\t\t\texpand and perfect until his last days. In the late 1940s,
\nwhen his eyesight was failing, he took the help of a scribe
\n\t\t\tand dictated the extensive final stages of revision.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSeparate cantos started to appear in print in 1946.
\n\t\t\tPart One of the first edition was published in 1950. The
\nnext year, after Sri Aurobindo’s passing, the rest of the
\n\t\t\tpoem was brought out in a second volume.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the second edition (1954), Sri Aurobindo’s letters
\n\t\t\ton Savitri <\/i>were added. They are omitted from the present
\nedition and included in Letters on Poetry and Art<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe present text is that of the fourth (“revised”) edition which came out in 1993. Each line has been checked
\n\t\t\tto eliminate any unintentional discrepancies between the
\nfinal manuscript or dictation and the printed form of the
\n\t\t\tpoem.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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