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Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore
Edited by Krishna Robinson, Andrew Dutta
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Interest in the life and work of Nobel prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore is now enjoying a revival after many years of neglect outside India. He wrote thousands of letters in both Bengali and English. Most of the significant Bengali letters have been published in the half-century since his death, but not translated, while few noteworthy English letters are in print. This book, which consists of about 350 letters spanning Tagore's entire life, a quarter of them in English translation, is the first to make his letters available to English readers. They have been especially selected to sho...
Interest in the life and work of Nobel prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore is now enjoying a revival after many years of neglect outside India. He wrote thousands of letters in both Bengali and English. Most of the significant Bengali letters have been published in the half-century since his death, but not translated, while few noteworthy English letters are in print. This book, which consists of about 350 letters spanning Tagore's entire life, a quarter of them in English translation, is the first to make his letters available to English readers. They have been especially selected to show as many facets of his experience, interests and ideas as possible. Students of history, politics and literature will find them an invaluable tool, not only for an understanding of the complexity of Tagore's personality, but also of the times in which he lived.
Table of contents:
Nobel prize (1913-1914); 88-110 The crest of the wave (1914-1916); 111-136 The ebbing of faith (1917-1918); 137-149 Anti-imperialist (1919-1920); 150-179 The founding of a university; 180-194 Anti-noncooperator (1922-1923); 195-215 Travels east and west (1924-1926); 216-231 Nationalism and internationalism (1927-1930); 232-248 Farewell to the West (1930); 249-271 Against the Raj (1931-1933); 272-301 International nationalist (1934-1936); 302-331 The Great Sentinel (1937-1939); 332-346 The crisis in civilisation (1939-1941); Appendix 1. Tagore and Einstein; Appendix 2. The Bihar earthquake; Appendix 3. Gandhi the man.
Interest in the life and work of the Nobel prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore is now enjoying a revival after many years of neglect outside India. This selection of some 350 letters spanning Tagore's entire life is the first to be available to English readers. The letters are intended to show as many facets of his experience, interests and ideas as possible, and will be a valuable source of information, not only for the understanding of the complexity of Tagore's personality, but also of the times in which he lived.
A selection of some 350 letters spanning Nobel prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore's entire life - the first to be available to English readers.
Table of contents:
Nobel prize (1913-1914); 88-110 The crest of the wave (1914-1916); 111-136 The ebbing of faith (1917-1918); 137-149 Anti-imperialist (1919-1920); 150-179 The founding of a university; 180-194 Anti-noncooperator (1922-1923); 195-215 Travels east and west (1924-1926); 216-231 Nationalism and internationalism (1927-1930); 232-248 Farewell to the West (1930); 249-271 Against the Raj (1931-1933); 272-301 International nationalist (1934-1936); 302-331 The Great Sentinel (1937-1939); 332-346 The crisis in civilisation (1939-1941); Appendix 1. Tagore and Einstein; Appendix 2. The Bihar earthquake; Appendix 3. Gandhi the man.
Interest in the life and work of the Nobel prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore is now enjoying a revival after many years of neglect outside India. This selection of some 350 letters spanning Tagore's entire life is the first to be available to English readers. The letters are intended to show as many facets of his experience, interests and ideas as possible, and will be a valuable source of information, not only for the understanding of the complexity of Tagore's personality, but also of the times in which he lived.
A selection of some 350 letters spanning Nobel prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore's entire life - the first to be available to English readers.