{"id":2991,"date":"2013-07-13T01:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:45:11","slug":"01-pre-contents-vol-02-collected-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/02-collected-poems\/01-pre-contents-vol-02-collected-poems","title":{"rendered":"-000_Pre_content.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"60%\" valign=\"top\">\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-02_Collected Poems\/_images\/Bgn-1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"902\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-03_CWSA\/-02_Collected Poems\/_images\/Bgn-2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"227\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p>\n<p>\n<hr>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=\"en-gb\"><b><br \/>\n<font size=\"6\">Collected Poems<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p>\n<p>\n<hr>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=\"en-gb\"><b><font size=\"4\">Publisher&#8217;s Note<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><br \/>\n<i>Collected Poems <\/i>comprises all of Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s poetical works with the exception of (1) the epic <i>Savitri<\/i>, (2) poetic dramas, (3) most translations into verse of poetry in Sanskrit, Bengali and other languages, and (4) original poetry in Bengali and Sanskrit. <i>Savitri<br \/>\n<\/i>is published as volumes 33 and 34 of T<font size=\"2\">HE<\/font> C<font size=\"2\">OMPLETE<\/font> W<font size=\"2\">ORKS OF<\/font> S<font size=\"2\">RI<\/font> A<font size=\"2\">UROBINDO<\/font>; the poetic dramas are included in volumes 3 and 4, <i>Collected Plays and Stories<\/i>;<br \/>\nthe poetic translations are included in volume 5, <i>Translations<\/i>; and the original poetry in Sanskrit and Bengali is published in volume 9,<br \/>\n<i>Writings<\/i> <i>in Bengali and Sanskrit<\/i>. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The present volume includes all short and narrative poems in English that Sri Aurobindo published during his lifetime. It also includes all complete poems found among his manuscripts after his passing, as well as incomplete poetry that the editors thought worthy of inclusion.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The poems have been arranged in seven overlapping chronological parts, which are subdivided into sections representing different genres and states of completeness. Poems published in small books during Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s lifetime have, for the most part, been kept together as published.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Sri Aurobindo worked on the poems in this volume over the course of seven decades. The first one was published in 1883, when he was ten. A number were composed or revised more than sixty years later, during the late 1940s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collected Poems Publisher&#8217;s Note &nbsp; Collected Poems comprises all of Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s poetical works with the exception of (1) the epic Savitri, (2) poetic dramas,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-02-collected-poems","wpcat-57-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}