Publisher’s Note
The Future Poetrywas first published in the monthly
reviewAryain thirty-two instalments between Decem-
ber 1917 and July 1920. These instalments were written
immediately before their publication.
Sri Aurobindo twice undertook to reviseThe Future
Poetry. During the late 1920s or early 1930s he revised
seventeen chapters; in 1950 he dictated changes and ad-
ditions to twenty chapters, thirteen of which had been
revised earlier. The work of revision was never completed
andThe Future Poetrywas not published in the form of
a book during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime.
In 1953 theAryatext ofThe Future Poetrywas
brought out as a book, with only two passages of the
later revision added. In 1985 an edition incorporating
all available revision was published.
On Quantitative Metrewas published in 1942 as an
appendix toCollected Poems and Playsand as a separate
book. It was written shortly before its publication.
This edition ofThe Future Poetry with On Quan-
titative Metrehas been checked against the author’s
manuscripts and the original printed texts.