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Described by Rabindranath Tagore as ‘revelations of my true self’, the poems and songs of Gitanjali established the writer’s literary talent worldwide. They include eloquent sonnets such as the famous ‘Where the mind is without fear’, intense explorations of love, faith and nature (‘Light, oh where is the light?’) and tender evocations of childhood (‘When my play was with thee’).In this new translation to mark ...
A group of twenty Bengali tales written by Upendrakishore, the grandfather of Satyajit Ray. The adventure of the taunting tailor bird, the wily jackal and the stupid tiger, the ill-fated crocodile and other assorted animal stories are very much in the folk-tale tradition, where the wily defeat the strong and the bully gets his comeuppance.
Pointed, witty, lucid and profound, Rabindranath Tagore's brief poems have not till now been given the prominence they deserve. Inspired by Martin Kampchen's German translations of some of the poems, William Radice's lyrical new translations aim to give a complete impression in English of the poet's achievement in this genre.Three collections are translated: Kaneka (Particles, 1899), Lekhan (Jottings, 1927) and Sphulinga (Sparks, posthumously published in 1945). ...