Tagore: Selected Poems: 5

by Rabindranath Tagore

Book Overview

A Penguin Classic The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140183663
• ISBN13: 9780140183665
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Overview of Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the outstanding Bengali poet, literateur and humanist (and Asia's first Nobel Laureate in 1913), is scarcely read outside his native Bengal because only a small fraction of his works have been translated from Bengali into English or indeed into other languages. English translations were those done by Tagore himself and by a few Bengali literary scholars well-versed in English. The arrival of Dr William Radice on the scene of Bengali scholarship in the early eighties brought in a current of fresh air. Here was an Englishman admiring Tagore and translating him! In this book, Radice applies his deep perception of Tagore in putting together a bouquet, as it were, redolent with the exotic fragrance of Tagoreana. No single collection can ever do justice to Tagore, and this one doesn't either. However, it does give the English-knowing reader a vivid glimpse of Tagore's amazing creativity. Radice has done a good job of choosing competent translators who have applied their hearts to the task -- Tagore is so subtle that it is enormously difficult to translate him! This book is strongly recommended for readers of all nationalities.