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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
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- The Essential Tagore
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 ...
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- Rabindranath 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 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 ...
Apr 15, 2011 · To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate, we have just published The Essential Tagore, the largest single volume of his work available in English. Tagore was as prolific and diverse a writer as the world has known, and this volume presents selections of his work across many genres, with new translations by Tagore scholars and ...
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 ...
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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 ...
