Song Offerings: Gitanjali
The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 primarily for this work, parts of which he had rendered into the lucid, grave English prose of prayer. Although he wrote over 40 books of poetry, this is the only one whose name is known outside the subcontinent.\ Tagore's most famous work deserves to be seen as it appeared in the Bengali - a series of jewels, the whole with the authority virtually of a holy book, and each one a metaphysical...
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Nobel Prize-winning Bengali poet's major work in its first English verse translation.Publishers WeeklyOf the 50 books of poems Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) wrote in Bengali, Gitanjali, or Song Offerings, may be the most beloved by readers of that language and singers, for Tagore made good on the title and turned them into songs. Tagore's own prose translations of half the book, plus other work, led to his Nobel Prize in 1913; Joe Winter, a London ex-pat now of Calcutta, preserves the original chronological sequence of 157 poems with his rhymed translations the first complete set of translations to appear in English. The rhymes stress many of the poems' images, but having them together overcomes most objections. ( Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ Of the 50 books of poems Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) wrote in Bengali, Gitanjali, or Song Offerings, may be the most beloved by readers of that language and singers, for Tagore made good on the title and turned them into songs. Tagore's own prose translations of half the book, plus other work, led to his Nobel Prize in 1913; Joe Winter, a London ex-pat now of Calcutta, preserves the original chronological sequence of 157 poems with his rhymed translations the first complete set of translations to appear in English. The rhymes stress many of the poems' images, but having them together overcomes most objections. ( Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.\ \
