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Gitanjali
by Ravindranath Tagore
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Gitanjali Is A Collection Of Poems By The Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore. The Original Bengali Collection Of 157 Poems Was Published On August 14, 1910. The English Gitanjali Or Song Offerings Is A Collection Of 103 English Poems Of Tagore’s Own English Translations Of His Bengali Poems First Published In November 1912 By The India Society Of London. It Contained Translations Of 53 Poems From The Original Bengali Gitanjali, As Well As 50 Other Poems Which Were From His Drama Achalayatan And Eight Other Books Of Poetry – Mainly Gitimalya (17 Poems), Naivedya (15 Poems) And Kheya (11 Poems). The Translations Were Often Radical, Leaving Out Or Altering Large Chunks Of The Poem And In One Instance Fusing Two Separate Poems (Song 95, Which Unifies Songs 89,90 Of Naivedya). The Translations Were Undertaken Prior To A Visit To England In 1912, Where The Poems Were Extremely Well Received. In 1913, Tagore Became The First Non-European To Win The Nobel Prize For Literature, Largely For The English Gitanjali.
About The Author
Rabindranath Tagore has also written Ravīndranātha Thākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”, Tagore’s poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his “elegant prose and magical poetry” remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Known mostly for his poetry, Tagore wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. Of Tagore’s prose, his short stories are perhaps most highly regarded; he is indeed credited with originating the Bengali-language version of the genre. His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. Such stories mostly borrow from deceptively simple subject matter: commoners. Tagore’s non-fiction grappled with history, linguistics, and spirituality. He wrote autobiographies. His travelogues, essays, and lectures were compiled into several volumes, including Europe Jatrir Patro (Letters from Europe) and Manusher Dhormo (The Religion of Man). His brief chat with Einstein, “Note on the Nature of Reality”, is included as an appendix to the latter. On the occasion of Tagore’s 150th birthday an anthology (titled Kalanukromik Rabindra Rachanabali) of the total body of his works is currently being published in Bengali in chronological order. This includes all versions of each work and fills about eighty volumes. In 2011, Harvard University Press collaborated with Visva-Bharati University to publish The Essential Tagore, the largest anthology of Tagore’s works available in English; it was edited by Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarthy and marks the 150th anniversary of Tagore’s birth.
Skryf Review
Amazing read .Gitanjali is a collection of 103 English poems, largely translations, by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. The word gitanjali is a composed from “git”, song, and “anjoli”, offering, and thus means – “prayer offering of song”. Rabindranath became the first non-European to win the Nobel price for Literature It resembles the poetry of mysticism and of course Tagore’s reaction to the vision of reality. Here he presents the Divine as the great affirmation, the fountain of energy, the source of life and of death, and also the belief of the vedantic doctrine’’ THAT ART THOU’’. His lyrics are transparent and they open to us the doors of inner spaces and longing for the divine. Gitanjali speaks of birth of life, to the death, the nature and man’s quest for answers from God. Gitanjali is offering to God.