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Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Indian (and more specifically Bengali) literary history, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indianโindeed, the first person outside Europeโto win the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely in recognition of his โspiritual offering of songs,โ Gitanjali.
Tagore himself translated the poems from the original Bengali, taking many liberties in the process. His English translation is rightly recognized as a work distinct from the Bengali original, consisting of major revisions, many elisions, and many poems originally published in other collections.
Tagoreโs lyrical simplicity, vivid imagery, and themes of nature, spirituality, death, and transcendence combine to produce a truly unique, powerfully moving work of thoughtful beauty. For many who read it, Tagoreโs words in Song XCVI ring true: โWhat I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed.โ
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Gitanjali
was published in 1913 by
Rabindranath Tagore.
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Chetan Jain, Viswas G, and Anand Rao at Bharat Literature
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HathiTrust Digital Library.
The cover page is adapted from
Bharat Mata,
a painting completed in 1905 by
Abanindranath Tagore.
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