In Your Blossoming Flower-Garden: Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo

In November 1924 Rabindranath Tagore disembarked at Buenos Aires with the intention of proceeding to Peru. Weakened by an influenza caught on board, he spent the next two months in a suburban riverside villa made available to him by a young Argentine woman who was devoted admirer of his works: Victoria Ocampo, destined to become one of the most distinguished women of Latin America. A friendship was formed which was to have a deep influence on the life and work of each. This book, the result of extensive researches in three continents, tells the fascinating story of that rare encounter and explores its numerous ramifications, including the crucial role played in it by Leonard Elmhirst, Tagore’s English secretary who had accompanied him to Argentina and who is distinguished in his own right as one of the builders of Sriniketan and as the co-founder, with his wife, of Dartingto Hall in Devon.There is a wealth of documentary evidence, including the presentation of valuable archival material, the entire known Tagore-Qcampo correspondence with full annotations, and thirty-three black and white and colored plates, some of which have never been published before.