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RABINDRANATH TAGORE'S

BIOGRAPHY AND

GITANJALI, 2 BOOK SET

GITANJALI

(SONG OFFERINGS)

TRANSLATED

BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE

PUBLISHED IN 1915

 A collection of prose translations made by the Nobel Prize winning author from the original Bengali text.  Some excerpts:

Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing that thy living touch is upon all my limbs.

I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind.

I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

Clouds heap upon clouds and it darkens. Ah, love, why dost thou let me wait outside at the door all alone?

In the busy moments of the noontide work I am with the crowd, but on this dark lonely day it is only for thee that I hope.

If thou showest me not thy face, if thou leavest me wholly aside, I know not how I am to pass these long, rainy hours.

I keep gazing on the far-away gloom of the sky, and my heart wanders wailing with the restless wind.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE 

THE MAN AND HIS POETRY

BY BASANTA KOOMAR ROY

PUBLISHED IN 1915

(Illustrated)

 The story of the life of Rabindranath Tagore, India's greatest poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for idealistic literature, which earned him an international reputation.  This account of Tagore's interests and activities, his devotion to education and his methods of dealing with boys, his habits of work, his hopes for India, gives Western readers an intimate impression of a personality formed by Eastern ideas and conditions, and disclosing the richness and beauty which flow from them and witness to their vitality and value. As a poet Tagore needs no commentator save a willingness to see truth from the other side of the world to give the imagination its rightful place beside the critical faculty. His thought is elusive and must be patiently pursued, and his speech is saturated with symbolism and imagery; he cannot be read at full speed; he must be waited upon and communed with. But if he demands much it is because he has much to give; and what he has to give is precisely what we need in this overworked Western world and this eager, impatient age. Includes photographs and narrations about his early years to his major works and winnning the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as excepts of his prose and poetry:

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic wallsWhere words come out from the depth of truthWhere tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfectionWhere the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habitWhere the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and actionInto that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Gitanjaji

Publisher: New York, Macmillian Company

Publication Date: 1915

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 110 pages

Rabindranath Tagore

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company

Publication Date: 1915

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 224 pages

These books appears to be in fair condition for their age and does not have any torn/loose pages.  The edges of the book are worn at cerain places and there are some spots on the cover and edges on pages but binding is still intact.  (see photo) Three pages have some yellow stains because the previous owner had pressed some flower petals between the pages. The first book has some writing in pencil on the front cover page. Please ask for more details.  The book will be securely packed before shipping.  Please ask all questions before bidding.

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE GITANJALI & BIOGRAPHY,RARE 2 BOOK SET 1915, NOBEL PRIZE

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