Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother.
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Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother. In these letters, Sri Aurobindo writes about his life as a student in England, a teacher in Baroda, a political leader in Bengal, and a writer and yogi in Pondicherry. He also comments on his formative spiritual experiences and the development of his yoga.
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Q: I have been waiting for a long time to take a look at A. E. Housman's little book "The Name and Nature of Poetry". It's been with you for months now. Perhaps you could spare it for a while? How did you like it?
A: Here is the book. I kept it with the intention of noting down my own ideas on Housman's theory, but all this time has elapsed
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without my being able to do it. Apart from the theory Housman, judging from the book, has a fine sense of poetic quality in others. For his own poetry, from the extracts I have seen, looks rather thin. I have read the book three or four times and always with satisfaction to my solar plexus.
18-9-1936
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