Selected Poems (The Oxford Tagore Translations) - Softcover

Rabindranath Tagore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198069642 ISBN 13: 9780198069645

Publisher: OUP India, 2010

Synopsis

This volume is part of 'The Oxford Tagore Translations' series, a prestigious project undertaken by Oxford University Press in collaboration with Visva-Bharati to publish English translations of a wide range of Tagore's writings including his poetry, non-fiction prose, and fiction. The 150 poems in this volume, including many new translations, cover the entire span of Tagore's life and illustrate his work in many significant genres and forms. Within the covers of a single volume, they offer a more representative range than ever before in English of Tagore's output in the field of poetry, which was a primary marker of his identity. The volume also includes a detailed introduction and extensive notes.

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About the Author

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India, he became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

William Radice was born in 1951 in London. He is a poet and a scholar and translator of Bengali, and has written or edited nearly thirty books. He has also translated Tagore's short stories and his novel, The Home and the World, for Penguin.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP India
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198069642
• ISBN 13: 9780198069645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Sukanta Chaudhuri