The writings of Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore have been largely unavailable to the Western world until now. In this single volume, some of his greatest poetry has been painstakingly translated into English so that Westerners can now enjoy and share his writing. Life Like Summer Flowers collects two of Tagore’s classical poetry masterpieces written in his early Gitanjali and The Gardener . Through fresh and natural translations, readers will feel Tagore’s love for life and reflections on love. Tactfully, he conceals the sufferings and darkness of the world through his luminous verse and his thought-provoking philosophical ideas.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites: http://www.tagoreweb.in/ http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
