Love Poems Of Tagore

Love Poems of Tagore

The Gardener

詩人在回首往事時吟唱出這些戀歌，在回味青春心靈的悸動時，無疑又與自己的青春保有一定距離，並進行理性的審視與思考，使這部戀歌不時地閃爍出哲理的光彩。閱讀這些詩篇，如同漫步在暴風雨過後的初夏裡，一股擋不住的清新與芬芳，彷彿看到一個亮麗而清透的世界，一切都是那樣的純淨、美好，使人與不知不覺中體味愛與青春的味道。 這本詩集是泰戈爾躍登世界文壇的成名作。詩中多表現男女之間的愛慕之情，也有一些讚美女性和母親的篇章。 作者簡介 泰戈爾 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) 泰戈爾是印度近代最偉大的文學家之一，1913年諾貝爾文學獎得主。他是孟加拉裔，將嶄新的散文與詩歌文體，以及白話的語言，注入以古典梵文為主孟加拉文學，堪稱活水。一生創作極豐，有詩哲之美譽。重要著作計有：詩集《園丁集》、《新月集》、《漂鳥集》、《分歧》、《吉檀迦利》等；劇作《郵局》、《暗室之王》及《春之循環》等。

Lyrics to Love

Lyrics to Love is an impressive compilation of Rabindranath Tagore's poetry, masterfully translated into English by Amitabha Basu. What sets this 101-poem collection apart from other translated works is his ardent focus on highlighting the lyrical rhythms and patterns Tagore created in his original that evokes such feeling. The nuances of Tagore's expressions - of love, hope, passion, senses and sensibilities - are all elegantly and meticulously captured in the translations in this book. Basu's work aims to bring forth awareness of one of the world's most revered poets. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in 1913 for Literature, though many have never read his translations from the original Bengali. The readers will enjoy this collection - an excellent and highly aesthetic work. It is a welcome arrival for the literary enthusiasts of the English-speaking world, always interested in reading Tagore's work but unable due to a lack of good translation. These translations reflect not only mastery of both the languages, English and Bengali, but also intimate familiarity of the translator with the inherent culture embedded in the original writings of Tagore. This familiarity enables him to uniquely and faithfully capture nuances so difficult to convey in ordinary translations. Amitabha Basu is a professor of Bengali at the University of California, Berkeley and formerly at Stanford University.