Gitanjali: Song Offerings

Tagore, Sir Rabindranath

ISBN 10: 1163201006 / ISBN 13: 9781163201008

Edité par Kessinger Publishing, 2010

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Synopsis :

Gitanjali: Song Offerings is a collection of poems written by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned Bengali poet, philosopher, and polymath. Originally written in Bengali and later translated into English by the author himself, the book is a compilation of 103 poems that explore themes of spirituality, love, nature, and the human condition.The title of the book, Gitanjali, translates to ""Song Offerings"" in English, and the poems within it are structured as offerings to the divine. Tagore's writing is deeply introspective and reflective, often exploring the complexities of the human experience and the search for meaning and purpose in life.The collection includes some of Tagore's most famous and beloved poems, such as ""Where the Mind is Without Fear"" and ""The Stream of Life."" The poems are written in a lyrical and musical style, with a focus on the beauty of language and the power of poetry to convey deep emotions and ideas.Gitanjali: Song Offerings is considered a masterpiece of Bengali literature and has been widely translated into many languages. It won Tagore the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, making him the first non-European to receive the prestigious award. The book continues to be celebrated for its timeless wisdom and poetic beauty, and remains a beloved classic of world literature.1913. A Collection of Prose Translations made by the author from the original Bengali. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for this book of prose. Tagore is an artist of rare lyrical powers, who understands the human soul. Tagore's poems are devotions, mystical, sublimated ecstasy. They are the thoughts of a seer, the perfect union of beauty and truth in poetry.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Présentation de l'éditeur: Gitanjali is a collection of 103 English poems, largely translations, of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated. Gitanjali is also the title of an earlier Bengali volume (1910) of 157 mostly devotional songs. The word gitanjoli is composed from "git", song, and "anjoli", offering, and thus means - "An offering of songs"; but the word for offering, anjoli, has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as "prayer offering of song". The English collection is not a translation of poems from the Bengali volume of the same name. While half the poems (52 out of 103) in the English text were selected from the Bengali volume, others were taken from these works (given with year and number of songs selected for the English text): Gitimallo (1914,17), Noibeddo (1901,15), Khea (1906,11) and a handful from other works. The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance even fusing two separate poems (song 95, which unifies songs 89,90 of naivedya). The translations were undertaken prior to a visit to England in 1912, where the poems were extremely well received. A slender volume was published in 1913, with an exhilarating preface by W. B. Yeats. In the same year, based on a corpus of three thin translations, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize, specifically the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Titre : Gitanjali: Song Offerings
Éditeur : Kessinger Publishing
Date d'édition : 2010
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : As New