Rabindranath Tagore An Anthology Author:Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson "These prose translations from Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years", W. B. Yeats wrote in 1912, the year before Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize. Mahatma Gandhi said of him, "In common with thousands of his countrymen I owe much to Tagore, who by his poetic genius and singular purity of his life has raised India in the estim... more »ation of the world."
From his celebrated play, The Post Office, to his fantastic paintings and drawings, this is the first anthology to show clearly the literary sophistication, emotional power and intellectual range of Tagore's whole achievement.« less