Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 65
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171676731
Description
The beauty and simplicity of these poems translated from the Bengali collection of poems 'Sishu' were written by Tagore primarily to entertain the children and moved many contemporary writers.
These poems by Tagore written primarily to entertain the children moved many contemporary writers, including Andre Gide and Juan Jimenez. Tagore's love for Nature included children. The child is an idea, a symbol of the new life.
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 more subtle than that in the Gitanjali,' and 'The Nation (1913) found in it 'a vision of childhood which is only paralleled in our literature by the work of William Blake.'
Contents
The Home
On the Seashore
The Source
Baby's Way
The Unheeded Pageant
Sleep-Stealer
The Beginning
Baby's World
When and Why
Defamation
The Judge
Playthings
The Astronomer
Clouds and Waves
The Champa Flower
Fairyland
The Land of the Exile
The Rainy Day
Paper Boats
The Sailor
The Further Bank
The Flower-School
The Merchant
Sympathy
Vocation
Superior
The Little Big Man
Twelve O' Clock
Authorship
The Wicked Postman
The Hero
The End
The Recall
The First Jasmines
The Banyan Tree
Benediction
The Girt
My Song
The Child-Angel
The Last Bargain