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Poetry and Song
Bengali poetry and song in original-language and historical translation witnesses, beginning with Tagore's distinct 103-poem English Gitanjali collection.
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Texts
Fruit-Gathering — Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore's 1916 collection of eighty-six English poems, self-translated from Bengali, on age, freedom, service, and the road.Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore — Author's EnglishRabindranath Tagore's complete 103-poem English Gitanjali collection, recast by the Bengali poet himself, with W. B. Yeats's historical introduction.Stray Birds — Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore's 1916 collection of 326 brief aphoristic poems, self-translated from Bengali, in the manner of Japanese haiku.The Crescent Moon — Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore's 1913 English collection of forty poems on childhood, self-translated from his own Bengali verse, illustrated in the original edition by Nandalal Bose.