Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
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"Gitanjali" by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of poems originally published in Bengali in 1910. Meaning "Song offering," this work explores devotion as its central theme, with the motto "I am here to sing thee songs." The collection's English translation earned Tagore the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, making him the first non-European to receive this honor. These meditative verses blend medieval Indian devotional lyrics with themes of love, while exploring tensions
between material desires and spiritual yearning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 |
|---|---|
| Author of introduction, etc. | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 |
| Title | Gitanjali |
| Note | Translated by the author. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitanjali |
| Credits | John B. Hare, Chetan Jain, Viswas G and Anand Rao |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures |
| Subject | Indic poetry -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Bengali poetry -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Prose poems, Bengali -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 7164 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Dec 10, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1861 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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