Gitanjali book written by rabindranath tagore biography
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A collection of poetry to be experienced than talked about
Introduction to Gitanjali
You may think that you consume poetry consciously but there may come along a book, like Gitanjali, where poetry will consume you, wholly, making you feel both lost and found, leaving you with a gratified feeling.
It’s with a feeling of reverence and fondness that I attempt at writing about this book. This book is one that I don’t want to view from a reviewer’s lens. Though this post may be tagged under the category of a book review, let me be clear that this is not a book review.
This is more like a childlike joy of sharing a found treasure with friends. This is exactly that.
Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali is a treasure to be shared and enjoyed, consumed and let be consumed, discussed in platforms and yet relished in silence.
Written by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (which translates to “Song Offerings”) is a collection of translated poems of Tagore’s collection of B
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Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, in Calcutta, India. He attended University College, at London for one year before being called back to India by his father in During the first 51 years of his life, he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India with his many stories, songs, and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend's magazine and he played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. While returning to England in , he began translating his latest selections of poems, Gitanjali, into English. It was published in September in a limited edition bygd the India Society in London. In , he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He was the first non-westerner to receive the honor. In , he was knighted by King George V, but Tagore renounced his knighthood in following the Amritsar massaker of Indian demonstrators bygd British troops. He primarily worked in Bengali, but after his success with Gitanjali, he translated many o
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Gitanjali
One of the greatest works of poetry in the modern times, Tagore’s Gitanjali was originally published in Bengali on August 14, as a collection of poems. However, while translating it in English later on, Gurudev, as Tagore was popularly known as, shortened it to a collection of poems which included 53 poems from the original ‘Gitanjali’ and 50 other poems from nine of his other books that included those from his famous drama ‘Achalyatan’, ‘Naibedya’, ‘Kheya’ and ‘Gitimalya’.
The translated version of Gitanjali, meaning ‘an offering of songs’ soon became very famous and was widely translated. The English version of Gitanjali was first published in ’s November by India Society of London and in , Tagore was honoured with the famous Nobel Prize for Literature, the first ever India to receive the coveted award and the first non-European to get it.
A Tagore classic—a poetry collection that is part of Words of the Master, a set of 12 books that have been transla