Gitanjali (1912) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rabindranath Tagore\'s Gitanjali is a classic of Indian literature reimagined for modern readers..
Through them, he approaches truth.
His subjects are love and loss, life and death, belief and despair.
Grounded in Hindu tradition, his poems remain recognizable to readers of all faiths and nations.
Written following the deaths of his wife and two children, the collection unites poetry and prayer in search of peace.
The essence of Gitanjali is humility.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.
Whether or not we admit it, his words never fail to remind us: to be human is to be vulnerable.
For the Irish poet, Tagore\'s poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared regardless: I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me.
When Yeats discovered Tagore\'s work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire.
Yeats, Gitanjali is the collection that earned Tagore the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Translated into English by Tagore and published with a groundbreaking introduction by Irish poet W.
Gitanjali (1912) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore
