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Apr 15, 2011 · The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore’s birth, this ambitious collection—the largest single volume of his work available in English—attempts to represent his extraordinary achievements in ten genres ...
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Fakrul Alam, Radha Chakravarty
- illustrated
- The Essential Tagore
This volume explores the essential Tagore, offering a selection of his works from the many genres with which he experimented and collecting them in one volume. In letter #92 in Chhinnapatra (Torn Leaves), Tagore confesses that though poetry has been for him “a kind of secret and forbidden delight,” he has also found...
The Poet 249 The Hero 252 Big and Small 254 Astronomy 256 On the Day Thou Breakst Through This My Name 257 More Life, My Lord 257 Thy Rod of Justice 258 The Day I Depart 258 It Hasn’t Rained in My Heart 259 When Life Dries Up 260 If the Day Ends 261 This Stormy Night 261 A Flight of Geese 262 The Restless One 264 Dawn and Dusk 267 Free! 268 ...
May 23, 2011 · But “The Essential Tagore” (Harvard; $39.95), published to coincide with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Tagore’s birth, is the most substantial one yet.
Jun 11, 2011 · This book is divided into ten sections, reflecting the many literary forms in Tagore’s work. Prolific is an understatement in characterizing Tagore. What is disappointing in this essential compilation of the writings of Tagore is the absence of an index. As an attraction for Europeans of early 20th century, Tagore was a mystic with biblical ...
Apr 15, 2011 · The first thing that strikes you about The Essential Tagore is the diversity of its subject's talents: In a career that stretched over seventy-three years (he finished his first poem when he was seven, and was composing a story on his deathbed), Tagore wrote novels, plays, literary criticism, political essays on the iniquities of the British Raj, and descriptions of his travels in Persia and ...
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Apr 15, 2011 · The first thing that strikes you about The Essential Tagore is the diversity of its subject's talents: In a career that stretched over seventy-three years (he finished his first poem when he was seven, and was composing a story on his deathbed), Tagore wrote novels, plays, literary criticism, political essays on the iniquities of the British Raj, and descriptions of his travels in Persia and ...
- Rabindranath Tagore
