SRI AUROBINDO

VOLUME TWENTY-SIX

The Future Poetry
with
On Quantitative Metre


Sri Aurobindo’s principal work
of literary criticism.

In this work, Sri Aurobindo outlines
the history of English poetry
and explores the possibility
of a spiritual poetry in the future.

It was first published in a series of essays
between 1917 and 1920;
parts were later revised
for publication as a book.