Selected Poems of Tagore (Color Illustrations and Fine Reading Edition)

Author: Rabindranath Tagore, Shen Feiyue
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book includes representative works from Tagore's collections such as Selected Poems, Gitanjali, Stray Birds, and The Crescent Moon. Selected Poems is an important English poetry collection by Tagore, featuring 130 poems written over 56 years from 1886 to 1941. This book selects 10 of these poems along with the preface. Gitanjali is Tagore's masterpiece, containing 103 poems. The language of Gitanjali is natural, simple, and pure, making the reader feel as though the poet is conversing with a friend, yet it also conveys a sense of a profound and noble ideal beyond this simplicity. The Crescent Moon includes 40 poems and is an English prose poem depicting the charm of children's lives. Stray Birds is an English aphoristic poetry collection with 325 short poems, filled with deep philosophical insights. The short poems in Stray Birds are like, sparkling with the wisdom of philosophy, while also conveying the vitality of life and the poet's personality, emotions, and wisdom.