{"id":5414,"date":"2022-05-19T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T09:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/es\/?post_type=product&p=5414"},"modified":"2022-05-19T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T09:12:58","slug":"gitanjalic","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/es\/gitanjalic\/","title":{"rendered":"Gitanjalic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Indian (and more specifically Bengali) literary history,\u00a0Rabindranath Tagore<\/a>\u00a0was the first Indian\u2014indeed, the first person outside Europe\u2014to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely in recognition of his \u201cspiritual offering of songs<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Gitanjali<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Tagore himself translated the poems from the original Bengali, taking many liberties in the process. His English translation is rightly recognized as a work distinct from the Bengali original, consisting of major revisions, many elisions, and many poems originally published in other collections.<\/p>\n

Tagore\u2019s lyrical simplicity, vivid imagery, and themes of nature, spirituality, death, and transcendence combine to produce a truly unique, powerfully moving work of thoughtful beauty. For many who read it, Tagore\u2019s words in Song XCVI ring true: \u201cWhat I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n

I<\/span>NTRODUCTION<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

A few days ago I said to a distinguished Bengali doctor of medicine, \u201cI know no German, yet if a translation of a German poet had moved me, I would go to the British Museum and find books in English that would tell me something of his life, and of the history of his thought. But though these prose translations from Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years, I shall not know anything of his life, and of the movements of thought that have made them possible, if some Indian traveller will not tell me.\u201d It seemed to him natural that I should be moved, for he said, \u201cI read Rabindranath every day, to read one line of his is to forget all the troubles of the world.\u201d I said, \u201cAn Englishman living in London in the reign of Richard the Second had he been shown translations from Petrarch or from Dante, would have found no books to answer his questions, but would have questioned some Florentine banker or Lombard merchant as I question you. For all I know, so abundant and simple is this poetry, the new renaissance has been born in your country and I shall never know of it except by hearsay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"