Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 / 2008-06-25 00:00:00

EBOOK GITANJALI ***


Originally scanned at sacred-texts.com by John B. Hare.
This eBook was produced by Chetan Jain, Viswas G and Anand Rao
at Bharat Literature


The Gitanjali or 'song offerings' by Rabindranath Tagore
(1861--1941), Nobel prize for literature 1913, with an
introduction by William B. Yeats (1865--1939), Nobel prize
for literature 1923. First published in 1913.
This work is in public domain according to the Berne
convention since January 1st 1992.


RABINDRANATH TAGORE

GITANJALI

Song Offerings
A collection of prose translations
made by the author from
the original Bengali
With an introduction by
W. B. YEATS
to WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN


INTRODUCTION

A few days ago I said to a distinguished Bengali doctor of
medicine, 'I know no German, yet if a translation of a German
poet had moved me, I would go to the British Museum and find
books in English that would tell me something of his life, and of
the history of his thought.
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