This Nobel Laureate in Literature is celebrated for his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful verse, which with consummate skill he has woven into the fabric of Western literature. Tagore modernized Bengali art by eschewing rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays explored both political and personal themes, noted for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unconventional contemplations. His compositions were so resonant that two nations chose his works as their national anthems, a testament to his profound artistic and cultural impact.
Selected Poems & Songs of Rabindranath Tagore
Excerpt from Glimpses of Bengal: Selected From the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895:It so happened that selected extracts from a large number of such letters found their way back to me years after they had been written. It had been rightly conjectured that they would delight me by bringing to mind the memory of days when, under the shelter of obscurity, I enjoyed the greatest freedom my life has ever known.
Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision.
GITANJALI PIEŚNI OFIARNE Rabindranath Tagore w 1913 roku za tom poezji Gitanjali otrzymał literacką Nagrodę Nobla. Tematem wierszy jest bezgraniczne uwielbienie Boga, któremu autor pragnie powierzyć całe swoje życie. Każda pieśń jest swoistą modlitwą. Doskonały, niezwykle przejmujący przekład Leszka Bartoszewskiego.
"Il canto della vita" è un'antologia che raccoglie i versi più significativi di Tagore composti sui temi a lui più cari: la vita, la morte, Dio, il dolore, la gioia. Il poeta celebra soprattutto l'amore, con sensibilità tutta orientale: una sintesi di amante e amato, vicina a Dio o identificabile con Dio stesso, un sentimento tormentoso e insieme vitale, che muove energie che investono la realtà intera e il cosmo. Come ha scritto W.B. Yeats, Tagore, al pari della civiltà indiana, ha realizzato la sua pienezza nello scoprire l'anima e nell'abbandonarsi alla sua spontaneità.
