My Reminiscences

My Reminiscenses (1911) was written when Tagore was fifty. It is an account of the first twenty-seven formative years of his life. Rather than a conventional autobiography, it is a series of 'memory pictures'. Born into a brilliant and highly aristocratic family, Tagore was the most dazzling instance of the benefits of the cultural collision between the Bengal Renaissance and the high noon of the British Empire. W.B.Yeats called My Reminiscenses 'a rich and most valuable work.'Written with wit, wisdom and more than a little self-mockery, it gives a unique and enduring insight into the life of this great literary genius.