On Savitri
THEME/S
I. BOOKS BY SRI AUROBINDO
Collected Poems and Plays, Vols. I and II (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1942).
I/ion : An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters (Ashram, 1957).
Poems, Past and Present (Ashram, 1946).
Last Poems (Ashram, 1952).
More Poems (Ashram, 1958).
Poems from Bengali (Ashram, 1956).
Songs of Vidyapati (Ashram, 1956).
Vasavadutta (Ashram, 1957).
Rodogune (Ashram, 1958).
The Viziers of Bassora (Ashram, 1959).
Eric (Ashram, 1960).
Prince of Edur (Ashram, 1961).
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol (Ashram, 1995)
The Future Poetry (Ashram, 1953).
Vyasa and Valmiki (Ashram, 1956).
Kalidasa (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1929).
Bankim-Tilak-Dayananda (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1940).
Heraclitus (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1941).
Hymns to the Mystic Fire (Ashram, 2nd Edition, 1952).
On the Veda (Ashram, 1956).
Eight Upanishads (Ashram, 1953).
Isha Upanishad (Ashram, 1951).
Kena Upanishad (Ashram, 1952).
Essays on the Gita (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Library Inc., New York, 1950)
The Foundations of Indian Culture (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1953).
The Renaissance in India (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1947).
The Life Divine (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1951).
The Mother (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 3"1 Impression, 1940).
The Synthesis of Yoga (On Yoga I), (Ashram 1955).
On Yoga II: Tomes One and Two (Ashram 1958).
The Human Cycle (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1950).
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The Ideal of Human Unity (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1950).
Letters, First Series (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1947).
Letters, Second Series (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949).
Letters, Third Series (Ashram, 1949).
Letters, Fourth Series (Ashram, 1950).
Speeches (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1922).
Thoughts and Aphorisms (Ashram, 1958).
On Himself and on the Mother (Ashram, 1953).
A System of National Education (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1924).
Sri Aurobindo's Vedic Glossary, compiled by A.B. Purani (Ashram, 1962).
(Note : The editions actually used by me are listed here, but the books published by Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, and Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, have now been reissued by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.)
II. BOOKS BY OTHERS
Abercrombie, Lascelles. The Idea of Great Poetry (Martin Seeker, London, 3rd Impression, 1926).
A.E. Voices of the Stones (Macmilian, London, 1925). The House of the Titans (Macmillan, London, 1934).
Aiyangar, Narayan. Essays on Indo-Aryan Mythology (Bangalore, 1898).
Alexander,S. Space, Time and Deity, Vols. I &I1 (Macmillan, London, 1927).
Alvarez,A. The Shaping Spirit : Studies in Modern English and American Poets (Chatto & Windus, London, 1958).
Arnold, Sri Edwin. The Light of Asia : and the Indian Song of Songs (Jaico Books, Bombay, 1949).
Auden, W.H. (Ed.) The Criterion Book of Modern American Verse (Criterion Books, New York, 1956).
Bain, F.W.A Heifer of the Dawn (Methuen, London, 13th Impression, 1927).
Baker, James Volant: The Sacred River: Coleridge's Theory of the Imagination (Louisiana State University Press, 1957).
Beevers, John. World Without Faith (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1935).
Berdyaev, Nicolas. The Meaning of History : translated from the original Russian by George
Reavey (Geoffrey Bles, London, 3rd Reprint, 1949).
Blackstone, Bernard. The Consecrated Urn : An Interpretation of Keats in terms of Growth and Form (Longmans, London, 1959).
Boodin, John Elof. God: A Cosmic Philosophy of Religion (Macmillan Company, New York, 1934).
Bowman, Archibald Allan. A Sacramental Universe, the Vanuxem Lectures edited by J.W. Scott (Princeton University Press, 1939).
Bowra, CM. From Virgil to Milton (Macmillan, London, 1945). Heroic Poetry (Macmillan, London, 1952).
Brockington, A. Allen. Mysticism and Poetry on a Basis Of Experience (Chapman & Hall, London, 1934).
Brooks, Cleanth, &. Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry (Henry Holt, New York, 1955).
Brough, John, Selections from Classical Sanskrit Literature, with English translation and Notes (Luzac, Londan, 1951).
Buchanan, Scott. Possibility (Kegan Paul, London, 1927).
Bullett, Gerald. The English Mystics (Michael Joseph, London, 1950).
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Camoens, Luis Vas De. The Lusiads, translated by William Atkinson (Tenguin Books, London, 1952).
Cassirer, Ernst. Language and Myth, translated by Susanne K. Langer (Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1946).
Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de. The Phenomenon of Man, translated by Bernard Wall (Collins, London, 1960).
Letters from a Traveller (Collins, London, 1962).
Chaudhuri, Haridas, The Philosophy of Integralism, or the Metaphysical Synthesis inherent in the Teaching of Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo Pathmandir, Calcutta, 1954). Chaudhuri, Haridas, 8c Frederic Spiegelberg (Eds.) The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo (George Allen 8c Unwin, London, 1960).
Cox, Sir George W. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations (Kegan Paul, London, 1903).
Croce, Benedetto. Aesthetic: As Science of Expression and General Linguistic. Translated by Douglas Ainslie (Macmillan, London, 1929).
Cruickshank, John. Albert Camus, and the Literature of Revolt (Oxford University Press, London, 1959).
Dante, Alighieri. The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, translated by Henry Francis
Cary (Oxford University Press, London, 1923).
The Divine Comedy, translated by Charles Eliot Norton (Great Books of the Western World, William Benton, Chicago, 1952). Das, Abinas Chandra. Rig-Vedic India, Vol. I (The University of Calcutta, 1921).
Deshmukh, P.S. The Origin and Development of Religion in Vedic Literature (Oxford University Press, 1933).
Diwakar, R.R. Mahayogi (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1954).
Dixon, W. Macneile. English Epic and Heroic Poetry (Dent & Sons, London, 1912).
Donnelly, M. Founding the Life Divine. An Introduction to the Intergral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo
( Rider, London, 1955).
Eastman. Max. The Literary Mind (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932).
Eaton, Gai. The Richest Vein: Eastern Tradition and Modern Thought (Faber 8c Faber, London, 1949).
Eliot, T.S. Selected Essays (Faber Faber, London, 1944).
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (Faber 8c Faber, London, 1955).
Fausset, Hugh I'Anson. A Modern Prelude (Jonathan Cape, London, 1933).
Frazer, Sri James George. Man, God and Immortality: Thoughts on Human Progress (Macmillan, London, 1927).
Gayley, CM. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic, and allied forms of
Poetry (New York, 1919). The Principles of Poetry (New York, 1904).
Gilson, Etienne. Dante the Philosopher, translated by David Moore (Sheed & Ward, London, 1952).
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust, (Bonn's Series, Bell, London, 1919).
Gore, Charles. 'Be Philosophy of the Good Life (John Murray, London, 1930).
Graves, Robert. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (Farrar Straus &
Cudahy, New York, 1948).
Grierson, H.J.C. (Ed.) Essays and Studies, Vol. XVI (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1931).
Gupta, J.N. Life and Work of Romesh Chunder Dutt (Dent & Sons, London, 1911).
Gupta, Nolini Kanta. The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Parts 1-VIII (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry).
Haas, William S. The Destiny of the Mind: East and West (Faber 8c Faber, London, 1956).
Highet, Gilbert. The Classical Tradition (Oxford University Press, London, 1951). People, Places and Books (Oxford University Press, London, 1953).
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Housman, A.E. The Name and Nature of Poetry (Cambridge University Press, London, 1933).
Hudson, Derek (Ed.) English Critical Essays, XX Century, Second Series (Oxford University
Press, London, 1958).
Inge, W.R. Christian Mysticism (Methuen, London, 6th Edition, 1925.) Isaacs, J. The Background of Modern Poetry (Bell, London, 1951)
Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa. Sri Aurobindo (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 2nd Edition, 1950).
Sri Aurobindo: An Introduction (Rao & Raghavan, Mysore, 1961). On the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952).
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Man and the Poet (Oxford University Press, London, 1948).
Indian Writing in English (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1962).
The Adventure of Criticism (Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1962).
Jacobi, Jolande. Complex, Archetype, Symbol: in the Psychology Of C.G. Jung, translated
from the German by Ralph Manheim (Roudedge, London, 1959).
James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience (Longmans, London, 37th Impression,
1929).
Johnson, Raynor C. The Imprisoned Splendour (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1954).
Jones, Phyllis M. (Ed.) English Critical Essays, XX Century (Oxford University Press, London, 1933).
Kazantzakis, Nikos. The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel, translated into English verse, with Introduction, Synopsis and Notes by Kimon Friar (Seeker & Warburg, London, 1958).
Kellett, E.E. Reconsiderations (Cambridge University Press, London, 1928).
Kenner, Hugh. The Poetry of Ezra Pound (New Directions, New York, 1951).
Ker, W.P. (ed.) Essays and Studies, Vol. III (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1912).
Knight, G. Wilson. The Crown of Life : Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare's Final Plays (Methuen, London, 1958).
Laureate of Peace : on the Genius of Alexander Pope (Roudedge, London, 1954).
Kurtz, Benjamin P. The Pursuit of Death (Oxford University Press, London, 1933).
Lai, P. & K. Raghavendra RAO. Modern Indo-Anglian Poetry (Kavita, Delhi, 1959).
Langley, G .H. Sri Aurobindo: Indian Poet, Philosopher and Mystic
(David Marlowe, London, 1949).
Leavis, F.R. (Ed.) Towards Standards of Criticism (Wishart, London, 1933).
LeeuwJ.J. Van Der. The Conquest of Illusion (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1928).
Leuba, James H. The Psychology of Religious Mysticism (Kegan Paul, London, 1925).
Levy, G.R. The Sword from the Rock (Faber & Faber, London, 1953).
Lewis, C. Day. The Aeneid of Virgil (The Hogarth Press, London, 1954).
A Hope for Poetry (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1934).
The Poet's Way to Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, London, 1957).
Lodge, Sri Oliver. My Philosophy (Ernest Benn, London, 1933).
Longinus. On the Sublime, translated by A. O. Prickard (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1930).
Macdonnel, A.A. A Vedic Reader for Students (Oxford University Press, London, 1917). Mackenzie, J.S. Cosmic Problems : An Essay on Speculative Philosophy (Macmillan, London, 1931).
Matthiessen, F.O. American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and
Whitman (Oxford University Press, London, 1946).
Mctaggart.J. McT. Ellis. Philosophical Studies (Edward Arnold, London, 1934).
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Megroz, R.L. Francis Thompson : The Poet of Earth in Heaven (Faber & Gwyer, London, 1927).
Meyerhoff, Hans. Time in Literature (University of California Press, 1955).
Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (New Directions, New York, 1945).
Mitra, Sisirkumar. The Dawn Eternal : The Secret of India's Evolution (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1954).
The Liberator: Sri Aurobindo, India and the World (Jaico Books, Bombay, 1955). Montague, William Pepperell. The Ways of Knowing (Allen & Unwin, London, 4th Impression, 1953).
Morgan, Charles. Liberties of the Mind (Macmillan, London, 1951). Mother, The. Prayers and Meditations, translated from the French (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, Revised edition, 1948).
Words of the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 3rd Edition, 1946).
Mukerjea, S.V. Disjecta Membra : Studies in Literature and Life (Indian Institute of World
Culture, Bangalore, 1959). Muller, Max. Auld Lang Syne : Second Series—My Indian Friends (Longmans, London,
1899).
Rammohan to Ramkrishna (Susil Gupta, Culcutta, 1952).
Murry, John Middleton. Countries of the Mind, Second Series (Oxford University Press, London, 1931).
Nandakumar, Prema. Bharati in English Verse (Higginbothams, Madras, 1958).
Noyes, Alfred. The Torch-Bearers, Vol. II, The Book of Earth (Blackwood 8c Sons, 1925).
Osgood, Charles Grosvenor. Poetry as a Means of Grace (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1946).
Pandit, M.P. Where the Wings of Glory Brood (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1961).
Sadhana in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1962).
Pasternak, Boris.An Essay in Autobiography, translated by Manya Harari (Collins & Harvill, London, 1959).
Payne, M.A. Creative Education (William Maclellan, Glasgow, 1958).
Pearson, N. Sri Aurobindo and the Soul Quest of Man (Allen & Unwin, London, 1952).
Pinto, Vivian de Sola. Crisis in English Poetry : 1880-1940 (Hutchinson, London, 1951).
Pound, Ezra. The Canto 1-84 (New Directions, New York).
Section : Rock-Drill, 85-95 (New Directions, New York).
Thrones: 96-109 (New Directions, New York, 1959).
The Spirit of Romance (New Directions, New York).
ABC of Reading (New Directions, New York).
Press, John. The Fire and the Fountain (Oxford University Press, London, 1955).
The Chequer'd Shade: Reflections on Obscurity in Poetry (Oxford University Press, London,
1958).
Purani, A.B. Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, First and Second Series (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1959,1960).
Life of Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1958).
Sri Aurobindo's 'Savitri': An Approach and a Study (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 2nd Edition, 1956).
Technical Terms in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy (Sri Aurobindo Karyalaya, Anand, 1949).
Ray, Prithwis Chandra. Life and Times of C. R. Das (Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1927).
Read, Sri Herbert. Collected Essays in Literary Criticism (Faber & Faber, London, 1938).
Richards, LA. Coleridge on Imagination (Roudedge, London, 2nd Edition, 1950).
Science and Poetry (Kegan Paul, London, 1926).
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Poemt 1906 to 1926, translated with an Introduction by J. B. Leishman
(The Hogarth Press, London, 1957).
Rishabhchand. The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1959).
Roy, Dilip Kumar. Among the Great (Nalanda Publications, Bombay, 1946).
Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952).
Roy, Pratap Chandra. The Mahabharata, Vol. II, Vana Parva, English Translation (Datta
Bose & Co, Calcutta). Rudd, Margaret. Divided Image : A Study of William Blake and W. B. Yeats (Roudedge,
London, 1953).
Ruggiero, Guido de. Existentialism, translated from the original Italian by E. M. Cocks
(Seeker 8c Warburg, London, 1946). Sansom, Clive. (Ed.) The World of Poetry : Poets and Critics on Art and Functions of Poetry
(Phoenix House, London, 1959). Santayana, George. Essays in Literary Criticism, Selected and edited by Irving Singer
(Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956).
Three Philosophical Poets : Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1935).
Sarma, D.S. Studies in the Renaissance of Hinduism in the 19th and 20th centuries (Benares Hindu University, Benares, 1944).
Sayers, Dorothy L. Further Papers on Dante (Methuen, London, 1957).
Sen, Kshitimohan. Medieval Mysticism of India, translated from the Bengali of Manmohan Ghosh (Luzac, London, 1935).
Sethna, K.D. The Adventure of the Apocalypse (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949).
The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1947).
Smith, Jay. (Ed.) Pioneer of the Supramental Age (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, 1958).
Smith, G.C. Moore. (Ed.) Essays and Studies, Vol. VIII (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1922).
Spurgeon, Caroline E. Mysticism in English Literature (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1927).
Stace, WT. Time and Eternity : An Essay in the Philosophy of Religion (Princeton University
Press, Princeton, 1952).
Stambler, Bernard. Dante's Other World : The Purgatorio' as Guide to the Divine Comedy
(Peter Owen, London, 1958). Stanford, W.B. The Ulysses Theme : A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero (Basil
Blackwell, Oxford, 1954). Stevens, Wallace. Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1957).
Opus Posthumous (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1957).
Stoudt, John Joseph. Sunrise to Eternity : A Study in Jacob Boehme's Life and Thought
(University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1957).
Strachey, Lytton. Biographical Essays (Chatto Windus, London, 1948).
Literary Essays (Chatto Windus, London, 1948).
Strong, L.A.G. Common Sense About Poetry (Victor Gollancz, London, 1934).
Tagore, Rabindranath. Personality (Macmillan, London, 1948). The Religion of Man (Allen &Unwin, London, 2nd Impression, 1932).
Collected Poems and Plays of Tagore (Macmillan, 1936). Tagore, Satyendranath, & Indira Devi. (Trs.) The Autobiography of Maharshi Devendranath
Tagore, Introduction by Evelyn Underhill (Macmillan, London, 1916). Tate, Allen. Poems: 1920-1945 (Eyre &. Spottiswoode, London, 1947).
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The Man of Letters in the Modern World (Thames Hudson, London, 1957).
Collected Essays (Alan Swallow, Denver, 1959). Tate, Allen, (in collaboration with David Cecil). Modern Verse in English: 1900-1950 (Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1958).
Tillyard, E.M.W. The English Epic and its Background (Chatto & Windus, London, 1954).
Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism (Methuen, London, 12th Edition, 1930).
Untermeyer, Louis. Modern American Poetry : Modern British Poetry, A Critical Anthology
(Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, 1936).
Urban, Wilbur Marshall. Humanity and Deity (Allen & Unwin, London, 1951).
Vivas, Elisco. Creation and Discovery: Essays in Criticism and Aesthetics (The Noonday Press, New York, 1955).
Yeats, W.B. Essays (Macmillan, London, 1924).
Yutang, Lin. The Wisdom of India (Michael Joseph, London, 1948).
Wain, John. Preliminary Essays (Macmillan, London, 1957).
Walker, Kenneth. A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching (Jonathan Cape, London, 1957).
Wellek, Rene, 8c Austin Warren. Theory of Literature (Jonathan Cape, London, 1953).
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass (Everyman's Edition, Dent 8c Sons, London, 1949).
Wilhelm, Richard. (Tr.) The Secret of the Golden Flower. A Chinese Book of Life. Translated & explained by Richard
Wilhelm; with a European commentary by C.G.Jung; translated into English by Cary F. Baynes (Kegan Paul, London, 1932).
Williams, Charles. The Figure of Beatrice : A Study of Dante (Faber 8c Faber, London, 6th Impression, 1953).
Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1933).
Wimsatt JR., William K, & Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism : A Short History (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1957).
Winternitz, M. A History of Indian Literature, Vol. I, Translated from the German by Mrs. S. Ketkar (University of Calcutta, 1927).
Woodroffe, Sir John. Is India Civilized ? (Ganesh 8c Co., Madras, 1918).
The World as Power (Ganesh 8c Co., Madras, 1956).
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader, First Series (The Hogarth Press, London, 1951).
III. MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS
Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual. Published by the Sri Aurobindo Pathmandir, Calcutta, every year since 1942, on 15 August.
Loving Homage. Special Commemoration Volume Published by the Sri Aurobindo
Pathmandir, Calcutta, on 15 August 1958.
Sri Aurobindo Circle. Annual Numbers published since 1945 on behalf of the Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay.
The Advent, Quarterly Journal, published since 1944, first from Madras and now from Pondicherry.
Mother India. First published as a fortnightly from Bombay (since February 1949), and subsequently converted into a monthly and published from Pondicherry.
Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Originally published (since February 1949) as the Bulletin of Physical Education: now issued quarterly as an Anglo-French-Hindi illustrated Journal; published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
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