Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology: An Anthology - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031220079X ISBN 13: 9780312200794

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998

Synopsis

The first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore mesmerized the world with his spiritual insights and finely wrought writings. This comprehensive and engaging anthology gathers his polymathic achievement, from the extraordinary humanity of The Post Officer to memoirs, letters, essays and conversations, short stories, extracts from the celebrated novel The Home and the World, poems, songs, epigrams, and paintings. This inspired collection of works by one of this century's most profound writers in an essential guide for readers seeking to understand Indian literature, culture, and wisdom, and the perfect reintroduction of Tagore's magnificence to American readers.

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. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 031220079X
• ISBN 13: 9780312200794
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Dutta Krishna, Robinson Andrew