Rabindranath Tagore - C or D, s&d

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No, I don't really know that much about him, but I've been reading a Penguin anthology of his short stories (which I picked up randomly because 1- weird name! and 2- hey, it's a penguin classic), and enjoying it immensley. I gather he is quite an important figure - "the grand master of Bengali culture" - and all that, but both ILE and ILB searches don't bring up much discussion.

Sorry I don't have any particular insights to start this thread with, but does anyone wanna talk Tagore?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 27 November 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Not really, but his non-fiction book Sadhana is quite readable, and has a lot of "Emersonian" moments. (I put it in scare quotes because of Emerson's debt to Indian philosophy one way or another.)

Also, Yeats' intro. to Gitanjaliis quite interesting, though I never really got much out of Gitanjali itself.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 27 November 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Here's Gitanjali along with Yeats' intro: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/gitnjali.htm

(Very difficult to find: first Google hit searching on "Gitanjali")

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 27 November 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

'i do not like your furniture poet!'

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 27 November 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

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