Most of the poems in this collection are taken from several volumes published during the 1930’s. The translator, Aurobindo Bose, has divided them into ‘Poems of Hope and Defiance’ and ‘Poem of Wonder.’ According to him, "these poems…. dispel forever the false idea that Tagore was a poet of the ‘Ivory Tower.’ They show….’what man has made of man’." The book also includes a selection of Tagore’s songs—poems set to music by the ...
