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Gitanjali

Gitanjali

by Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941

BookID: 7164

Language:English

Author of introduction, etc.:Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 85.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Indic poetry -- Translations into EnglishTagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Translations into EnglishBengali poetry -- Translations into EnglishProse poems, Bengali -- Translations into English

Description

"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.)

Class:PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures

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