The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804835764 ISBN 13: 9780804835763

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

Awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861― 1941) is considered the most important poet of modern-day India. He was also a distinguished author, educator, social reformer, and philosopher. Today, Tagore along with Mahatma Gandhi is prized as the foremost intellectual and spiritual advocates of India's liberation from imperial rule.

This inspiring collection of Tagore's poetry represents his "simple prayers of common life." Each of the seventy-seven prayers is an eloquent affirmation of the divine in the face of both joy and sorrow. Like the Psalms of David, they transcend time and speak directly to the human heart.

The spirit of this collection may be best symbolized by a single sentence by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the renowned philosopher and statesman who served as president of India: "Rabindranath Tagore was one of the few representatives of the universal person to whom the future of the world belongs."

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About the Author

reverend Herbert F. Vetter, D.D. is the retired Minister at Large of The First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chaplain to Harvard University, and the founding director of the national radio and television broadcasts of the Cambridge Forum. He is also the editor of Speak Out: Against the New right (beacon Press, 1982).

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Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804835764
• ISBN 13: 9780804835763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Vetter Herbert F.