On Savitri
THEME/S
Abbé Bremond 316
Abercrombie, Lascelles 283,375,409,445
A.E. (George Russell) 266,306
Aeschylus 267
53,318,319,458
Aiyangar, Narayan 279
Alexander, Samuel 436
Anouilh, Jean 267
Ariosto31,383
Arnold, Sir Edwin 335
Arnold, Matthew 292,311,312,412
Arya 14, 15,31,328,359,416
Atkinson,WilliamC.382
Aurobindo, Sri
Tagore on, 3-5; Paul Richard on, 5; life-sketch, 6-16; Sri Aurobindo's yoga, 19-26; his politics, 27-30; his philosophy, 30-39; his poetry, 39-55; the call of Savitri, 55-57; Sri Aurobindo on the recasting of Aswapati's travels, 84; Sri Aurobindo's views on 'Fixt Fate and free Will, 151-153; Sri Aurobindo's symbolism in the Savitri-Yama dialectic, 210-211; Sri Aurobindo's expansion and changes to the original legend,257-264; his ideas on the symbolic content of Savitri, 264-265; Sri Aurobindo on the Vedic myths, 269-271; on the symbol of'Savitri' in the Veda, 275-279; on the divinisation of human nature, 281-283; on the overhead planes of consciousness, 295-299; Sri Aurobindo's overhead aesthesis, 299-303; Sri
Aurobindo on mantric poetry, 303-304; on overhead poetry, 309-310; overhead influence in Sri Aurobindo's poetry, 317-322; Sri Aurobindo's aims in writing Savitri, 323-325; his yogic experiences, 327-328; Sri Aurobindo on mystic poetry & his blank verse line, 339-349; Sri Aurobindo' similes in Savitri,349-355; his style in Savitri, 355-361; his preoccupation with the dawn idea, 361-368; his conception of Savitri's personality,368-371; Sri Aurobindo on epic poetry, 378-379; Sri Aurobindo's admiration for Whitman, 387; Sri Aurobindo compared to Kazantzakis, 404-405; Sri Aurobindo compared to Dante,414-415, 417-420; Sri Aurobindo's early narrative poems, 420-424; Sri Aurobindo on Goethe,425; Sri Aurobindo's views compared with Goethe's, 425-427; Sri Aurobindo's visionary certainty, 436; Sri Aurobindo's sonnets,440-443; discussion of Sri Aurobindo on the philosophy of Savitri, 451; discussion of Sri Aurobindo's poetic style & word combinations, 455-456; Sri Aurobindo's life-work culminating in Savitri reviewed, 457-465.
Bain, F.W. 403,451
Baji Prabhou 12,52,53,340,342,458
Bande mataram 3, 9,10,12,51
Bede,The Venerable 459
Berdyaev 34,35,270
Bergson 33,34,399,400,404
Bhagavad Gita 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 33, 56,
224-225,257,294,309,413,460
Bbagavata 56,256
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Bharati, Subramania 376
Bhartrihari 45
Bhasa 48,376
Bhavabhuti 376
Bhave, Vinoba 25
Bhawani Mandir 27,28
Blake, William 310,311,333,424,462
Boehme.Jacob 20,333,361
Boodin, John Elof 435,439,448,457
Bowra,C.M.375,380,383
Bradley, A.C. 425
Breul, Karl 426
Bridges, Robert 92,377,408,460
Browning, Oscar 7
Browning, Robert 315,334,413,445
Buchanan, Scott 380
Bullett, Gerald 36
Bunyan, John 336
Camoens374,381,382
Camus, Albert 267,272
Canon Overton 305
Carpenter, Edward 438
Cassirer, Ernest 267
Chadwick,J.A.32
Chandidas 45
Chatterjec, Bankim Chandra 9
Chaucer, Geoffrey 9
Chetty, Shanker 14
Chitrangada 363,458
Clark, A.B. 9
Clemens, Prudentius 336
Clough, Arthur Hugh 53
Cocteaujean 268
Collected Poems and Plays 39
Collins, Douglas C. 455
Cotton, James S. 8
Coulton, G.G. 412
Cousins, James H. 17
Coxe, Louis O. 398,408
Crane, Hart 390
Dante 33,102, 111, 330,333,334,371,372,
380,381,383-385,394,410-415,417- 419,
422,426,432,448,450,461,462
Das, C.R. 12,17,45
De Chardin, Pierre Teilhard 35-37
De Ruggiero, Guido 450
Dharma 11
Dickinson, Emily 314
Dowsett, Norman 18
Drewett, William H.6
Dryden, John 310,341
Dutt, Tom 253
Eliot, T.S. 44,198,267,272,314,389,391, 397,408,411,413,414,453
Emerson, R.W. 332
Erie 47,50,51
Essays on the Gita 25,294,359 Euripides 243
Fausset, Hugh I'Anson 434
Ferrar, Hugh Norman 53
Fischer, Kuno 425
Fitts, Dudley 394
Friar, Kimon 398,401
Future Poetry, The 42,293, 344,359,459
Gandhi, M.K. 17,19,25,28,30
Gayley, CM. 374
Ghose, Barindra Kumar 6
Ghose, Benoy Bhushan 6-7
Ghose, Krishnadhan 6
Ghose, Lotika 53
Ghose, Manomohan 6-7
Ghose, Swarnalata 6
Gide, Andre 267-268
Giradoux, Jean 268
Goethe 40,273,377,425-427
Gokhale,G.K.10
Gupta, Nolini Kanta 20
Gurdjieff34,35
Haas, William S. 307,316
Hakim, Khalifa A 33
Hardy, Thomas 251,377
Hartmann 33,34
Hegel 30,33
Highet, Gilbert 383,384,411,412,414
Hodgson, Ralph 367
Homer 53-55,265,267,319,320,370,381,
383,384,387,398,399,401
Hopkins, G.M. 75,98,314,368,455
Horu Thakur 45
Housman, A.H. 56
Hugo, Victor 377
Human Cycle, The 38,56,293,359,459
Huxley, Julian 37
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Ideal of Human Unity, The 38,293,359,459
Ilion 53-55,318,319,364,446,458
Indu Prakash 27
Inge.W.R. 331,434
IshaUpanishad 25,26,241
Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa 29,46,415,421
Jacobi,Jolande272,273
James, William 13
Jones, Rufus M. 305,330
Joyce, James 267,428
Jung, C.G. 437
Kalidasa 46,52,340,341,374,376
Karmayogin 11-12
Kazantzakis, Nikos 330,377,398-408,436, 441,460,461
Keats, John 174,313,315,365
Kenner, Hugh 391-393
Knight, G. Wilson 33,410,458
Krishnaprem, Sri (Ronald Nixon) 339,461, 463
Kurtz, Benjamin 306
Lal,P.357
Last Poems 41,458
Lawrence, D.H. 388
Leeuw.J.J.Van Der 334
Lele, Yogi 11,81,327,458
Leopardi 309
Lewis, C.S. 174,326,337
Life Divine, The 5,30,32-37, 111, 112,126,
210,282,293,294,298,323,329,347,359,
400,411,416,417,440,446,459
Lodge, Sir Oliver 436
Longinus 316
Lord, George de R 395-396,398
Love and Death 40, 52, 201, 318, 340, 342,
386,421-423,458
Lowes.J.L. 315
Machen, Arthur 317
MacLeish, Archibald 390,391
Madhusudan 40
Maeterlinck, Maurice 377
Mahabharata, 12,21,45,46,135,200,201, 209,210,242-244,252,254,256,261,279, 375-377,416,418,419,448,458,460 Maharaja of Baroda 8
Maitra, S.K.33,34
Mallarme317
Marlowe, Christopher 337
Masefieldjohn 268
Mehta, Phirozeshah 10
Meleager 45
Mickiewicz, Adam 376
Miller, Henry 4,281
Milton, John 7, 142, 214, 243, 265, 309, 336, 356, 362, 371, 377, 378, 381-386, 461,462
Mirandola, Pico Delia 332 Morgan, Charles 316
Mother, The (Madame Mirra Richard) 9,
14-18,20,28, 262, 289, 294,334,338, 416,
420,426,438,458; 459
Mukerjea, S.V. 253
Muller,Max267 .
Munshi,K.M.17
Murray, D.L. 5
Murray, Gilbert 55
Murry, Middleton 308, 355,412,414
Myers, F.W.H. 334,436
AWa256,458 Nehru, Jawaharlal 17 Nevinson, Henry 29 Newbolt, Sir Henry 412 Nidhu,Babu45 Nietzsche 30,400 Nirodbaran358,386,416 Noyes, Alfred 331,408
Olson, Elder 434
Omar Khayyam 262
O'Neill, Eugene 268
On Yoga, ibid.mes one & two) 20
Osgood, C.G. 333
Ouspensky 34
Owen, Wilfred 390
Pandit, M.P. 20
Parnell 40
Patanjali 21
Peacock, Ronald 427
Pearce, Roy Harvey 388,394
Perseus the Deliverer 12,47,49,318
Pinto, Vivian de Sola 344
Piper, Ravmond Frank 373
Plato 33,271
Plotinus33,326
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Pope, Alexander 33, 78,315,341,346,355, 410
Pound, Ezra 377, 384, 389, 392-394, 398,
402,414,447,460,461
Prince of Edur 47,51,52
Prothero, G.M. 7
Purani, A.B. 20,27,316,370, 371
Quiller-couch, Sir Arthur 377
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 25
Rai, Lala Lajpat 10 Rajagopalachari, C (Rajaji) 17,25 Rajnarain 40
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri 4
Ramayana 45, 56, 160, 330, 336, 341, 375,
418-420,445,447,458,461
Read, Herbert 267,306,383
Reddy,C.R.9,16,17
Richard, Paul 5,14
Richards, I.A. 410
Richardson, Dorothy M. 35
Richardson, Jack 268
Rishabhchand 20
Robinson, Edwin Arlington 314
Rodogune 47-49,318,341
Rolland, Romain 4,5
Rose of God 42, US, 458
Roy, Dilip Kumar 462
Roy, Dwijendralal 45
Roy, Raja Rammohan 6
Samuel, Viscount 35
Santayana, George 266,372
Sarma,D.S. 33
Sartre, Jean-Paul 268
Sassoon, Siegfried 390
Savage, D.S. 34
Savitri -
Need for the reverent study of, 56-57; summary of, 61-238; publication dates of, 242; context of the original upakhyana, 240-244; the Mahabharata story, 244-251; character of Savitri as seen by other writers, 252-253; Vyasa's Savitri, 254-255; Nala and, 256; comparative analysis of Vyasa's tale and, 257-259; Sri Aurobindo's contribution in, 260-265; Vedic significances in, 274-279; symbolism
in, 284-285; symbolism of the characters in, 285-290; difficulties in understanding the poem quickly, 293-294; mystic explorations in, 305; description of overhead poetry in, 308; Sri Aurobindo's aims in the composition of, 323-325; yogic experiences imbedded in, 325; occult fields described in, 330-331; descriptions of spiritual-awakenings in, 334; 'struggle' theme in, 337-338; visionary element in, 338-339; mystic element in, 339-340; metre, rhythm & blank verse of, 338-349; use of symbols in, 348-349; similes in, 349-355; varying of blank verse in, 356-357; the alleged intractability of, 356-359; Sri Aurobindo's inspiration in, 359-360; need for patience in reading, 360-361; theme of Dawn in, 361-368; personality of Savitri as envisaged in, 468-471; claims of Savitri as a cosmic epic, 473-474; Paradise Lost compared to, 385; possible influence of other poets in, 386-387; Song of Myself 'and, 388-389; Cantos and, 389-394; The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel compared to, 403-408; the Mother's role in the writing of,415-416; the Commedia and, 416-420; The Life Divine and, 417; scheme of, 420; Urvasie and Love and Death compared to, 421-423; revisions in, 423-424; Faust and, 424-427; architectural design of, 427-431; the Commedia's cosmos and the cosmos of Savitri compared, 432; symbolic action in, 432-440; Sri Aurobindo's Sonnets and, 440; views on the length of, 445-447; views on the human interest of, 448-449; views on the philosophic content of, 450-451; word-combinations in, 455-456; Savitri as the fulfilment of Sri Aurobindo's life's work, 457-458; Savitri as a new revelation for a greater Dawn, 464.
Schopenhauer 13
Sethna, K.D. 319,357,423,440
Shakespeare, William 7, 50, 309, 311, 312,
341,366,371,395,412,419,425,458
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Shankara 30
Shaw, Bernard 400, 436
Shelley, P.B. 309,315
Somadeva 48
Spengler, Oswald 400
Spiegelberg, Frederic 53
Stacc.W.T. 272
Stambler, Bernard 272, 380
Stanford, W.B. 402
Stephen, J.K. 376
Stevens, Wallace 313, 314, 396 398
Stoudt, J.J. 20,21
Strachey, Lytton 346, 347
Strong, L.A.G. 294
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 9
Synthesis of Yoga, The 20, 24, 25, 210, 283,
293-295,347.359,400
Tagore, Rabindranath 3-5, 13, 17, 19, 47,
Tasso 381,383
Tate, Allen 314, 366,390-392, 414, 419
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 315, 344, 345, 396,
Thompson, Francis 270,311
Thought the Paraclete 42,321
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar 10,19, 25
Tillyard, E.M.W. 337,379,395, 445 456
Tod, James 51 Turner, W.J. 310-312
Underhill, Evelyn 339, 348
Urban, Wilbur Marshall 274, 449
Urvasie 40, 52,201,318,340,342,363,386, 421-423, 458
Valmiki 243,340,341,384
Van Ruvsbroeck, Jan 326
Vasavadutla 47-49, 318
Vidula 12, 46, 458
Vidyapati 45
Vijayatunga J. 18
Virgil 33, 54, 309, 376, 380, 381, 383, 384, 395, 417
Vivekananda, Swami 4, 5,19
Viziers of Bassora, The 47,49, 318
Vyasa 135,137,209,257,258,261,262,
Wadia,B.P.77
Walker, Dr. 7
Wallace, Alfred 252
Whitehead, A.N. 33, 34
Whitman, Walt 377,387-389 394
Willey, Basil 410
Williams, Charles 381, 448
Williams, Tennessee 268
Winternitz 254, 255
Wolff, Otto 37
Woodroffe, Sir John 330
Wordsworth, William 135, 309, 388
Yeats, W.B. 314,389,391,445
Younghusband, Sir Francis 5
Yutang, Lin 305
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