Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

ISBN 10: 8171677029 / ISBN 13: 9788171677023

Published by Rupa, 2005

About this Item

One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map of the world when his Gitanjali was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Myriad-minded, he was a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, painter and composer of songs. His worldwide acclaim as a social, political, religious and aesthetic thinker, innovator in education and a champion of the 'One World' idea makes him a living presence. Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore was first published in 1936 in keeping with Tagore's wish for an anthology. The poems and plays included are translations from the Bengali. But Tagore himself did not translate all of them. Eg. The Post Office was translated by Debabrata Mukhopadhyay and The Cycle of Spring by C.F.Andrews and Nishikanta Sen. The collection also includes ten later poems which Tagore wrote after 1921 like The Son Of Man and Boro-Budur.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
• Publisher: Rupa
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8171677029
• ISBN 13: 9788171677023
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This was first published in 1936 in keeping with Tagore's wish for an anthology. But the title of the original was really a misnomer as the works compiled were selected not collected. The poems and plays collected are translations from the Bengali.