Selected Poems of Tagore

Author: Tagore
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: Tagore wrote nearly two thousand poems in his lifetime and published fifty collections of poetry. This book selects his most renowned works, including The Story of the Gitanjali, Gitanjali, The Crescent Moon, The Gardener, and Stray Birds. Some of these poems praise national heroes and advocate patriotism; others celebrate the innocence of children; and some serve as proverbs and aphorisms, offering wisdom and inspiration. The Poems of Tagore is a significant English collection of his poems, featuring one hundred and thirty poems along with an introductory poem. Published by International University Press the year after the poet's death, it includes translations of all poems except the last nine, which were translated by Tagore himself from Bengali to English. The collection spans from 1886 to 1941, covering a period of fifty-six years. The important poems in the collection can be broadly categorized into three types: religious lyric poems, realistic poems, and political lyric poems, along with some miscellaneous poems.