The Future Poetry

Sri Aurobindo Ghose, The Future Poetry, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1953

pp.406, original jacket rebound in contemporary jute binding with gilted leather title ticket pasted on the front board and spine
9 x 6 x 1.6 in (22.5 x 15 x 4 cm)

Signed by Sri Aurobindo Ghose with a presentation copy inscribed "To Sajanikauta with blessings"

The Future Poetry was first published in the monthly review Arya in thirty-two instalments between December 1917 and July 1920. These instalments were written immediately before their publication.

Sri Aurobindo twice undertook to revise The Future Poetry. During the late 1920s or early 1930s he revised seventeen chapters; in 1950 he dictated changes and additions to twenty chapters, thirteen of which had been revised earlier. The work of revision was never completed, and The Future Poetry was not published in the form of a book during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime.

In 1953 the Arya text of The Future Poetry was brought out as a book, with only two passages of the later revision added.