Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8129101750 ISBN 13: 9788129101754

Verlag: Rupa, 2003

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The Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus I brings together six of Tagore's acclaimed works. It includes Gitanjali, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, a selection of 103 poems that took the world by storm, Post Office, a symbolic play rich in allegory, both simple and sophisticated, considered a masterpiece in worlditerature, Creative Unity (1922), hailed as the finest of Tagore's essays in English, revealing some of his fundamental tenets on art, aesthetics, ife and religion, His Hungry Stones and Other Stories, a collection of some of Tagore's best-loved short stories, Gora, aandmark in the history of the Bengali novel, covering the broad canvas of the social, cultural, religious and politicalife of the nineteenth century urban middle-class in Bengal and My Boyhood Days, Tagore's poignant memoir of his childhood days.

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Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who was active as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, educationist and painter during the age of Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudeb, Kobiguru, and Biswokobi.[a]A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bh¿nusi¿ha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism,[15] he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy also endures in his founding of Visva-Bharati University

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rupa
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8129101750
• ISBN 13: 9788129101754
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1018
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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