On Tagore
Amit Chaudhuri
Broschiertes Buch

On Tagore

Reading the Poet Today

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Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the Humanities in Literary StudiesRabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a romantic poet, speaking of beauty and truth; as a transcendentalist; a believer in the absolute; a propagandist for universal man; and as a national icon. But, as Amit Chaudhuri shows in these remarkable and widely admired essays about the poet and his milieu, his secret concern was really with life, play, and contingency, with the momentary as much as it was with the eternal. It is this strain of unacknowledged modernism, as well as a revolutionary life-affirming vision,...