... The Future Poetry Chapter VI The National Evolution of Poetry The work of the poet depends not only on himself and his age, but on the mentality of the nation to which he belongs and the spiritual, intellectual, aesthetic tradition and environment which it creates for him. It is not that he is or need be entirely limited or conditioned by his environment... to bring out something that is latent and suppressed or at least something which is trying to surge up from the secret all-soul into the soul-form of the nation. Therefore to appreciate this national evolution of poetry and the relations of the poet and his work with it cannot but be fruitful, if we observe them from the point of view not so much of things external to poetry, but of its own spirit ...
... Aurobindo and the New Thought in Indian Politics, p. viii 9. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, pp. 595-600 10. Purani, The Life, p. 106 11. A. C. Mazumdar, Indian National Evolution (W5), pp. 111-12 12. Ibid., p. 112' 13. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 31 14. Haridas and Uma Mukherjee, India's Fight for Freedom, or The Swadeshi Movement:... 38. Ibid., p . 649 39. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, pp. 352-53 40. Ibid., p. 348 41. Ibid. 42. Purani, The Life, p. 95 43. A. C. Mazumdar, Indian National Evolution. Appendix B, p. xliii 44. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, pp. 47-48 45. Ibid., p. 49 46. Ibid. 47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 639 48. Ibid., p. 850 49 ...
... annihilated. In former times the nation was not always a real and vital unit; the tribe, the clan, the commune, the regional people were the living groups. Those unities which in the attempt at national evolution destroyed these older living groups without arriving at a vital nationhood disappeared once the artificial or political unit was broken. But now the nation stands as the one living group-unit ...
... Practical Guide to Integral Yoga (1971) Majumdar, R.C . Studies in the Bengali Renaissance Mary, Countess of Minto. India: Minto and Morley (1934) Mazumdar, A. C. Indian National Evolution (1915) Misra, R. S. The Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo (1957) Page 823 Mitra, Sisirkumar. Sri Aurobindo and Indian Freedom (1948); The Dawn Eternal (1954); The ...
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