Tagore's Gitanjali

This newly translated collection of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Song Offerings” includes the Bengali originals as well as the translations done by Tagore himself. Those poems, whose first publication in 1912 was described as “an event in the history of English poetry and of world poetry,” still continue to dazzle millions worldwide with the reach of their vision, encompassing the earth and the stars, yet firmly grounded in the poet’s relationship with his beloved, his muse, or his lord, as the reader may choose to understand the source of his genius. These fresh versions of the classic poems provide a perfect introduction for the sensitive modern reader to the entire range of Tagore’s incomparable writings.