Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002/2004
Language: English
Pages: 578
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171677029
Description
First published in 1936 in keeping with Tagore's wish for an anthology, the poems and plays included in this volume are translations from the Bengali.
‘Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore’ was first published in 1936 in keeping with Tagore’s wish for an anthology. But the title of the original volume was really a misnomer as the works compiled were selected and not collected. The Poems and Plays included are translations from the Bengali. But Tagore himself did not translate all of them. i.e. ‘The Post Office’ was translated by Debabrata Mukhopadhyay and ‘The Cycle of Spring’ by C F Andrews and Nishikanta Sen. The collection also includes ten later poems which Tagore wrote after 1921 like ‘The Son of Man’ and ‘Boro-Budur’
Contents
Gitanjali
The Grescent Moon
The Gardener
Chitra
Fruit-Gathering
The Post Office
Lover’s Gift
Crossing
Stray Birds
The Cycle of Spring
The Fugitive and Other Poems
Sacrifice and Other Plays
Sanyasi, or the Ascetic
Malini
Sacrifice
The King and the Queen
Karna and Kunti
Index of First Lines