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These poems by Tagore written primarily to entertain the children moved many contemporary writers. The beauty and simplicity of these poems translated from the Bengali collection of poems Sishu (1903) are very moving. The Globe in its review (1913) described it as 'a revelation more profound and mor... More

These poems by the medieval Indian saint poet Kabir (1440-1518), one of the distinguished makers of Indian religions poetry, attracted Tagore for their mystical depth, inner devotion, love for all and unity of religions in their essence.One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath... More

The poems selected in this volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy an... More

The poems selected in this volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy an... More

The poems selected in this volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy an... More

The poems selected in this volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy an... More

The poems selected in these volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy a... More

The poems selected in this volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy an... More

Stray Birds consists of epigrams and short verses and are mostly translation of the epigrammatic verses of Kanika (Fragments) and Lekhan (Autographs in verse). The brevity, economy and intensity of these verses are striking and the combination of wit and wisdom has a magical lilt.One of India's most... More

This valuable work enables the common reader to easily comprehend the choicest treasures of India's rich cultural heritage. Though dealing only with verses-----from Vedic Hymns to Ashokan Edicts to classical Sankrit Kavyas, the book encompasses distinctive specimens of poetry from five different per... More

The poems presented in this volume are from the last four years of his life. They were written after two spells of serious illness. The shadow of approaching death is prominent, although one should not be misled into thinking that death is the only topic of his late creation. The poems are chosen to... More

Acclaimed by Forster and Pound, for Yeats the poet whose poetry 'stirred my blood as nothing has for years', Tagore was and remains India's greatest writer this century. Prolific and innovatory as poet, novelist, dramatist, musician and painter, he was also a leading figure in the Nationalist moveme... More

The poems selected in this volume give us the essence of the magic of Tagore's poetry. Translated by the poet himself, they recreate a romantic vision of the divine truth. They intricately weave the sacred with the secular. Some are tales in verse with a rare delicacy of feelings. Some are dreamy an... More

This book, the fourth in the Oxford Tagore Translations series, brings together new translations of nearly 150 poems by Rabindranath Tagore, many of them translated for the first time. The poems cover the entire span of his life, and illustrate his work in many different poetic genres and forms.This... More

This book, now in a revised edition, is a comprehensive study of modern Indian poetry in English. It is a history and analysis of the most important poets (such as Nissim Ezekial, A.K. Ramanujan and Dom Moraes), books and journals, along with an analysis of the social basis of Indian English-languag... More

This is an anthology of the works of four leading Hindi poets, in translation, of the genre and period (roughly between the two world wars) known as Chayavad. This volume comes with a critical introduction by David Rubin who contextualizes this literary movement within the larger socio-political mov... More

The author traces the development of romantic poetry in the Indian tradition starting with ancient poetry in Prakrit from the fourth century court of Hala, through the Tamil Aham poetry, to Kalidasa's creations in classical Sanskrit, the 10th canto of the Bhagvata Purana, Jayadeva's Geeta Govinda, t... More