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English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, v.1: Poems

Rabindranath Tagore and Sisir Kumar Das (ed.)

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 .


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009