Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology - Hardcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312169736 ISBN 13: 9780312169732

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1997

Synopsis

The most comprehensive collection of writings by the Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher available includes inspiring works representing the full range of his talent, including a play, poems, songs, a novel, memoir selections, and travel essays. 12,500 first printing.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Praise over the century for Rabindranath Tagore and his work:

"In common with thousands of his countrymen I owe much to one by his poetic genius and singular purity of life has raised India in the estimation of the world." --Mahatma Gandhi

"The entire Indian civilization spoke through the poetic wisdom of Rabindranath Tagore." --Deepak Chopra

"[Tagore's] lyrics...display in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my life long." --W.B. Yeats

"Tagore, who was a great master of words, seems to me to have spoken about language, and its connection with social and political life, with acute insight, and what he said has great interest for us today." --Isaiah Berlin

About the Author:

Krishna Dutta, who was born in Calcutta, has lived for many years in London, where she works as a teacher.

Andrew Robinson is the literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement. He is the author of Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye and The Art of Rabindranath Tagore.

Together they have written Rabindranath Tagore: the Myriad-Minded Man (St. Martins' Press, 1996) and are the editors of Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore (1997). They have also co-translated Tagore's The Post Office (St. Martin's Press, 1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0312169736
• ISBN 13: 9780312169732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Dutta Krishna, Robinson Andrew