‘Gitanjali’ is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of Tagore’s own English translations of his Bengali poems. These poems highlight the many realizations author had under the crimson sky, casting his forlorn eye and pensive heart. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for this book.
‘Fruit-Gathering’ is a collection of poems and a sequel to Gitanjali. In it, Tagore meditates simply and directly on the interplay between the individual and the surroundings.
‘My Reminiscences’ is an autobiography of the great Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.
Over de auteur
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali polymath, a poet, musician and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tagore’s poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his elegant prose and magical poetry remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Author of the ‘profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse’ of Gitanjali, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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