Book description
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most
haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a
profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works
deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the
eternal and transient, and with the paradox of an endlessly changing
universe that is in tune with unchanging harmonies. Poems such as
'Earth' and 'In the Eyes of a Peacock' present a picture of natural
processes unaffected by human concerns, while others, as in 'Recovery -
14', convey the poet's bewilderment about his place in the world. And
exuberant works such as 'New Rain' and 'Grandfather's Holiday' describe
Tagore's sheer joy at the glories of nature or simply in watching a
grandchild play.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj
philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose
works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early
20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India, he became Asia's
first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
William Radice was born in 1951 in London. He is a poet and a
scholar and translator of Bengali, and has written or edited nearly
thirty books. He has also translated Tagore's short stories and his
novel, The Home and the World, for Penguin.
