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Gitanjali (Paperback)
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Gitanjali (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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List price R158
Loot Price R130
Discovery Miles 1 300
You Save R28 (18%)
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Gitanjali (1912) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore.
Translated into English by Tagore and published with a
groundbreaking introduction by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, Gitanjali is
the collection that earned Tagore the 1912 Nobel Prize in
Literature. When Yeats discovered Tagore's work in translation, he
felt an intense kinship with a man whose work was similarly
grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. For
the Irish poet, Tagore's poems were at once deeply personal and
essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared
regardless: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations
about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top
of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close it
lest some stranger would see how much it moved me." Whether or not
we admit it, his words never fail to remind us: to be human is to
be vulnerable. "Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.
This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it
ever with fresh life. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried
over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies
eternally new." The essence of Gitanjali is humility. Written
following the deaths of his wife and two children, the collection
unites poetry and prayer in search of peace. Grounded in Hindu
tradition, his poems remain recognizable to readers of all faiths
and nations. His subjects are love and loss, life and death, belief
and despair. Through them, he approaches truth. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali is a classic of Indian
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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