The Fugitive - Poems of Love, Longing, and the Eternal Journey - Softcover

Tagore, Sir Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627556249 ISBN 13: 9781627556248

Publisher: Sublime Books, 2014

Synopsis

Love calls, memory fades, beauty passes, and the human spirit continues its restless search for freedom and meaning in this lyrical collection by Rabindranath Tagore.

In The Fugitive, Tagore explores the fleeting nature of life through poems filled with longing, separation, spiritual yearning, and moments of sudden illumination. Lovers wait and remember, travelers hear distant calls, and ordinary scenes in nature become reflections of the soul's movement through time. Tagore's imagery of roads, rivers, flowers, seasons, evening skies, and passing footsteps gives physical form to emotions that are intimate yet universal.

The collection moves between personal desire and philosophical meditation, treating human life as both a temporary dwelling and an unending journey. The fugitive of the title is not merely someone escaping confinement, but the elusive presence of beauty, love, time, and the eternal itself-always near, yet impossible to possess completely. Tagore's language combines simplicity with symbolic depth, creating poems that can be read as romantic lyrics, spiritual reflections, or meditations on mortality and change.

Published in English in 1921 and associated with the Bengali collection Palataka, The Fugitive displays the qualities that made Tagore one of the most influential literary voices of the twentieth century. His poetry crosses boundaries between East and West, sacred and secular, personal feeling and universal experience. This volume will appeal to readers of lyrical poetry, spiritual literature, Indian writing, and contemplative works concerned with love, impermanence, nature, and the search for meaning.

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About the Author

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India, in 1861. A poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, composer, educator, philosopher, and artist, he became one of the central figures of the Bengali Renaissance. Educated largely at home, Tagore began writing at an early age and eventually transformed Bengali literature through his use of natural speech, psychological realism, and close attention to ordinary life.Tagore wrote poetry, novels, plays, essays, songs, and hundreds of short stories. His best-known works include Gitanjali, The Home and the World, The Gardener, and The Post Office. His short fiction frequently explores village life, social inequality, women's experiences, childhood, family obligations, and the conflicts between tradition and modernity. He also founded an experimental school at Santiniketan that later developed into Visva-Bharati University.In 1913, Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Asian recipient of the award. The Nobel committee recognized the sensitivity and beauty of his verse, but his achievement extended far beyond poetry. He also composed songs that became the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. Tagore died in 1941, leaving behind an immense body of work that continues to influence literature, music, education, and cultural thought around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sublime Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627556249
• ISBN 13: 9781627556248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74