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Rabindranath Tagore : the myriad-minded man /
"These prose translations from Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years," wrote W.B. Yeats in 1912, a year before Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Asian writer so honored. Traveling the world for several decades and sharing bot...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Langue: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
1995.
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| Résumé: | "These prose translations from Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years," wrote W.B. Yeats in 1912, a year before Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Asian writer so honored. Traveling the world for several decades and sharing both his artistic and spiritual gifts with millions, Tagore was praised and admired in his time like no other twentieth-century |
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| Description: | This is a biography of Rabindraneth Tagore who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. An educational, social, political and religious reformer, he wrote poetry, short stories, novels, essays and plays, and he painted and composed songs. This book focuses on the man, not his art. |
| Description matérielle: | xv,493 p. 48 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0747530866 |