Gitanjali (Song Offerings): A Collection of Prose Translations Made By the Author from the Original Bengali

Boston, MA: International Pocket Library , 1950. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is creased and split with some chipping at the head and tail as well; some shelf wear; former owner's name and address label is affixed to the inner front cover; former owner's inscription in ink on the ffep; overall a nice used copy! Tan wrapper with brown lettering and illustration. Illustrated endpapers. 64 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and poetic pages! "A Bengali poet and mystic, Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) had long been loved and admired in India, but it was not until the publication of his own English translation of more than a hundred of his Bengali poems in 1913 that he achieved international fame  and a Nobel Prize. Comprised of moving, heartfelt prose poems reminiscent of Blake and Gibran  many almost biblical in their rhythms, phrasings, and images  Gitanjali (Song Offerings) was inspired by medieval Indian lyrics of devotion in which the principal subject is love, through some poems detail the internal conflict between spiritual longings and earthly desires, and others depict images drawn from nature. In his introduction to this translation, William Butler Yeats writes: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me."This new edition is sure to earn Tagore a broad new following.........". Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.