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Item Code: NAN646
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Language: English
Edition: 2010
ISBN: 9788170589808
Pages: 770
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch
Weight 1 kg
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Book Description
About the Author

Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. He studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college.

In 1906 Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he became one of the leaders of the Indian nationalist movement. As editor of the newspaper Bande Mataram, he put forward the idea of complete independence from Britain. Arrested three times for sedition or treason, he was released each time for lack of evidence.

Sri Aurobindo began the practice of Yoga in 1905. Within a few years he achieved several fundamental spiritual realisations. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in French India in order to concentrate on his inner life and work. Over the next forty years, he developed a new spiritual path, the Integral Yoga, whose ultimate aim is the transformation of life by the power of a supramental consciousness. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. His vision of life is presented in numerous works of prose and poetry, among the best known of which are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita and Savitri. Sri Aurobindo passed away on 5 December 1950.

Publisher's Note

Collected Poems comprises all of Sri Aurobindo's poetical works with the exception of (1) the epic Savitri, (2) poetic dramas, (3) most translations into verse of poetry in Sanskrit, Bengali and other languages, and (4) original poetry in Bengali and Sanskrit. Savitri is published as volumes 33 and 34 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO; the poetic dramas are included in volumes 3 and 4, Collected Plays and Stories; the poetic translations are included in volume 5, Translations; and the original poetry in Sanskrit and Bengali is published in volume 9, Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit.

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.

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's lifetime have, for the most part, been kept together as published.

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.

Contents

Part One: England and Baroda 1883-1898
 
Poem Published in 1883 5
Song to Myrtilla 9-37
Poem from Manuscripts, c. 1891-1898 41-43
Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1891-1892 47-48
Part Two: Baroda, c. 1898-1902  
Complete Narrative Poems 65-111
Incomplete Narrative Poems, c. 1899-1902 145-163
Sonnets from manuscripts, c. 1900-1901 177-182
Short Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1900-19001 185-194
Part Three: Baroda and Bengal, c. Other Poems  
Poem from Ahana and other Poems 201-237
Poem from Manuscripts, c. 1900-1906 247-261
Part Four: Calcutta and Chandernagore 1907-1910  
Satirical Poem Published in 1907 267
Short Poems Published in 1909 and 1910 273
Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1909-1910 285-286
Narrative Poems Published in 1910 293-309
Poems Written in 1910 and Published 321-325
Part Five: Pondicherry, c. 1910-1920  
Two Poem in Quantitative Hexameters 333-475
Poem from Manuscripts, c. 1912-1913 495-509
Incomplete Porms from Manuscripts, c. 1912-1920 519-525
Part Six: Baroda and Pondicherry, c. 1902-1936  
Poems Past and Present 531-542
Part Seven: Pondicherry, c. 1927-1947  
Six Poems 547-553
Poems 561-564
Poems Published in On Quantitative Metre 573-583
Three Sonnets 589-590
Sonnets from manuscripts, c. 1934-1947 593-627
Lyrical Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1934-1947 631-644
Poems Written as Metrical Experiments 649-653
Nonsense and "Surrealist" Verse 657-659
Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1927-1947 663-681
Appendix 685-687
Note on the Texts 689
Index of Titles 733
Index of First Lines 743
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