Letters From A Young Poet (Chaudhuri, Rosinka Tagore, Rabindranath)
Letters from a Young Poet 1887-1895 Mass Market Paperback – 27 August 2014
by Tagore Rabindranath (Author)
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As a young man, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a series of letters to his niece during what he described as the most productive period of his life. By turns contemplative and playful, gentle and impassioned, Tagore's letters abound in incredible insights - from sharply comical portrayals of English sahibs to lively anecdotes about family life, from thoughts on the nature of poetry to spiritual contemplation and inner feeling. And coursing through all these letters, like a ceaseless heartbeat, is Tagore's deep love for the natural splendour of Bengal. In this manner, this volume also serves as a prose companion to his magnificent work Gitanjali. Shimmering with wit and warmth, Letters from a Young Poet offers unforgettable vignettes of the young poet in those happy days before extraordinary fame found him.
Translated by Rosinka Chaudhuri
'A towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal.' Amartya Sen
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Of all of Rabindranath s prose, I have read Chinnapatra the most frequently throughout my life. When I first went abroad, I was very careful to keep it with me always - so that, from a distance of twelve thousand miles, I could sometimes touch the heart of Bengal --Buddhadeva Bose
A towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal --Amartya Sen
About the Author
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 1941) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He produced some sixty collections of verse, nearly a hundred short stories, several novels, plays, dance dramas, essays on religious, social and literary topics, and over 2500 songs, including the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Rosinka Chaudhuri completed her DPhil at Oxford University and is a professor in the cultural studies department at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She has been visiting fellow at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, and Charles Wallace Fellow at Cambridge University. She is the author of Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal, Freedom and Beef-Steaks and The Literary Thing. She has edited Derozio, Poet of India and co-edited The Indian Postcolonial.
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Publisher : Penguin; 1st edition (27 August 2014)
Language : English
Mass Market Paperback : 424 pages
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It's the way of life seen through nature. It is the best choice for someone seeking philosophy and humor at same time. You feel the landscapes described
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