Tagore, Rabindranath; Sisir Kumar Das (ed.);
English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, v.1: Poems
Sahitya Akademi, 1994, 669 pages
ISBN 817201547X, 9788172015473
topics: | poetry | bengali | translation
includes The Child, the only major poem he wrote in English. The corpus of Tagore's English writings, large and diverse, forms a substantial part of his total work. The first volume of this 3-part series includes all the poetic works translated by Tagore and the poems he wrote originally in English. The second volume consists of plays and stories translated by him, as well as five prose works. The third volume is a collection of different genres of his writings. TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION I Gitanjali The Gardener The Crescent Moon Fruit-Gathering Lover's Gift and Crossing The Fugitive Collected Poems and Plays Poems SECTION II Stray Birds Fireflies SECTION III The Child SECTION IV One Hundred Poems of Kabir APPENDICES The Fugitive (1919?) Lekhan Notes Sources of English Translations Index of First Words Sisir Kumar Das was educated at Calcutta, London and Cornell Universities. His is currently Tagore Professor of Bengali literature at the University of Delhi. He received the Nehru Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany .