Gitanjali

By Tagore, Rabindranath

Book Id: WPLBN0002953704
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File Size: 48.31 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Gitanjali
Author:	Tagore, Rabindranath
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Poetry
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Gitanjali
Historic Publication Date:	1913
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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Description
Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated into other languages. In England a slender volume was published in 1913, with an exhilarating preface by W. B. Yeats. In the same year, Rabindranath became the first non-European to win the Nobel prize. (summary by Hilara) On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time. But it is never lost, my lord. Thou hast taken every moment of my life in thine own hands. Hidden in the heart of things thou art nourishing seeds into sprouts, buds into blossoms, and ripening flowers into fruitfulness. I was tired and sleeping on my idle bed and imagined all work had ceased. In the morning I woke up and found my garden full with wonders of flowers. 81, Gitanjali

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Poetry