Gitanjali Song Offerings Meaning In Bengali

Tagore

Written by the most famous Bengali poet, philosopher, social reformer, and dramatist who came into international prominence when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. For the Bengali public, Tagore has been, and remains, an altogether exceptional literary figure, towering over all others. His poems, songs, novels, short stories, critical essays, and other writings have vastly enriched the cultural environment in which hundreds of millions of people live in the Bengali-speaking world, whether in Bangladesh or in India. - Amartya Sen, Harvard University and Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 Formerly issued in a limited edition by the India Society in 1912. This edition was first published by Macmillan & Co. in March 1913. This text was retrieved from the digitized version of Gitanjali available in the internet archive of the University of Toronto. The hard copy of this version was presented to the Library of the University of Toronto by Lord Falconer from the books of the late Sir Robert Falconer, President of the University of Toronto, 1907-1932. A COLLECTION OF PROSE TRANSLATIONS MADE BY THE AUTHOR FROM THE ORIGINAL BENGALI

Gitanjali

Gitanjali (Song Offerings)

A new English version of Rabindranath Tagore's classic Gitanjali first published in 1912 and winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. These 103 poems have touched generations with their lyrical beauty and spiritual depth. This new English version offers the 21st Century reader access to the exquisite beauty of Tagore's timeless classic with contemporary language that will continue to move and inspire.