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The One and the Many
This elegant volume of Tagore's poems, translated, is copiously illustrated by colour photographs from John Berridge, Professor of Religion at Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada.
William Radice, who has translated Tagore for years, is a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is also a poet in his own right.
The second translator, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, was born in Calcutta in 1940 and educated at Calcutta and Oxford. In 1963 she became the first Indian woman to gain a First in English Literature at Oxford. She also has a doctorate from Oxford. Based in Britain since her marriage to an Englishman, she maintains close links with the literary life of her native city and is regarded as a significant Bengali writer of her generation.
William Radice, who has translated Tagore for years, is a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is also a poet in his own right.
The second translator, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, was born in Calcutta in 1940 and educated at Calcutta and Oxford. In 1963 she became the first Indian woman to gain a First in English Literature at Oxford. She also has a doctorate from Oxford. Based in Britain since her marriage to an Englishman, she maintains close links with the literary life of her native city and is regarded as a significant Bengali writer of her generation.
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1997
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Rabindranath Tagore
2,577 books4,255 followersAwarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
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March 20, 2019
This book is a selection from the works of Tagore. It is a remarkable book, which comes across as a kind of mixture of the permeating spiritual love exhibited by Rumi, and the expansive and liberating vistas of humanity that Whitman provides.
For the most part, the book alternates short poems with interesting photos from within India. There are also some prose pieces, and some letters sent from Tagore to others. There is no real theology presented in these pieces, yet they radiate with a sense of the divine. The spiritual aspects of the poems are coupled with the components of God's animal creations, usually people, but also fish, birds, etc.
Tagore also has an interesting preoccupation with our place in the dimension of time. This comes across in several forms, including the sense that one gets in poems where the individual that is praising god merges into the whole aggregate of people praising god in an unending sequence.
A great introduction to Tagore, which is sure to promote interest in the rest of his works.
For the most part, the book alternates short poems with interesting photos from within India. There are also some prose pieces, and some letters sent from Tagore to others. There is no real theology presented in these pieces, yet they radiate with a sense of the divine. The spiritual aspects of the poems are coupled with the components of God's animal creations, usually people, but also fish, birds, etc.
Tagore also has an interesting preoccupation with our place in the dimension of time. This comes across in several forms, including the sense that one gets in poems where the individual that is praising god merges into the whole aggregate of people praising god in an unending sequence.
A great introduction to Tagore, which is sure to promote interest in the rest of his works.
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