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The Gardner (Paperback)
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The Gardner (Paperback)
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List price R191
Loot Price R159
Discovery Miles 1 590
You Save R32 (17%)
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The Gardener (1915) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath
Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore and dedicated to Irish
poet W. B. Yeats, The Gardener is a collection of earlier poems
republished following his ascension to international fame with 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. Whether or not we admit it, his words
never fail to remind us: to be human is to be vulnerable. "In the
morning I cast my net into the sea. I dragged up from the dark
abyss things of strange aspect and strange beauty-some shone like a
smile, some glistened like tears, and some were flushed like the
cheeks of a bride. [...] Then the whole night through I flung them
one by one into the street. In the morning travellers came; they
picked them up and carried them into far countries." In his
landmark collection Gitanjali, Tagore explored the realm of the
spirit, paring down language to its clearest, purest form. In The
Gardener, he gives expression to more worldly themes. Here, he is a
fisherman, a restless wanderer, a servant and queen, an observer of
life in all forms. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rabindranath
Tagore's The Gardener is a classic of Indian literature reimagined
for modern readers.
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