Selected Poems
$23.51
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2005
Summary
‘An important book … William Radice’s introduction is excellent’ Sunday Times
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient, and with the paradox of an endlessly changing universe that is in tune with unchanging harmonies. Poems such as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449884 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140449884 |
| Author: | Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2005 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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An important book… William Radice
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“An important book … William Radice’s introduction is excellent.” —The Sunday Times (London)
About The Author
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India, he became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
William Radice was born in 1951 in London. He is a poet, scholar, and translator of Bengali, and has written or edited nearly thirty books. He has also translated Tagore’s short stories and his novel, The Home and the World, for Penguin.
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