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Title: Rabindranath Tagore: Final Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, Wendy Barker, Saranindranath Tagore ISBN: 0-8076-1488-2 Publisher: George Braziller Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: No rage against the dying of light
Comment: Inheriting a famous family name means nothing unless the bearer of this burden strives to achieve things that are extra-ordinary. I salute & congratulate Saranindranath (Tagore) and the co-author Wendy Barker for taking up the immense challenge of translating Rabindranath's Final Poems. Authors successfully carry the sacred torch of translating Bengali Literature to reach out to the world body in the new millenium that was once ignited by Tagore himself. It is interesting to rediscover this "mystic" poet from India who once became the sensation of America. In 1912, the famous Chicago based "Poetry" magazine ran an issue on Tagore before his visit to the Americas. Tagore became the Poet's Poet and Writer's Writer of many literary protagonists of west such as W B Yeats, Robert Frost and Ezra Pound. It is all the more befitting to publish this book in a time when the world is discovering the great literary genre of Indian English through the works of Rushdie, Roy and Naipaul.
It is a bit unusual to have a 40-page preface (by Wendy Barker) and introduction (by Saranindranath) in poetry book that contains only 59 pages of poems. But after reading these prologues I am convinced that they were necessary. Particularly Saranindranath's lucid explanation of Rabindranath's complex religious philosophy is very interesting. Before his death, Tagore wrote the Final Poems from his sick bed during 1940 and 1941. Through these poems, we understand and feel the maturity of a great genius of all times who explored the human inquiry through thousands of songs & poems, hundreds of essays, short stories, numerous novels & paintings. The Final Poems are divided into three sections: Sickbed, Birthday and Last poems. Being a serious reader of world literature, I completely appreciate the difficulties the translators were subjected to. However one can still smell the aroma original rose in many simple verses such as...Words of emptiness rise, compassion-filled, a meaning beyond understanding...Please read the rest, you will be enlightened.
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Title: Gitanjali : A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel Laureate by William Butler Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore ISBN: 0684839342 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore by Herbert F. Vetter, Rabindranath Tagore ISBN: 0804831254 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sadhana the Realization of Life: 1915 by Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Rabindranath Tagore ISBN: 0766106594 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice ISBN: 0140183663 Publisher: South Asia Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: On the Shores of Eternity : Poems from Tagore on Immortality and Beyond by Deepak Chopra ISBN: 060960564X Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 16 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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