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Rabindranath Tagore : final poems by selected and translated from the Bengali by Wendy Barker and Saranindranath Tagore is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The brilliant and immensely prolific Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is known the world over for his accomplished works in an astoundingly wide range of fiction, short stories, poetry, drama, and essays. During the final year of his life, while suffering from the painful illness that would eventually end in his death, Tagore completed four volumes of poetry that expressed the emotional turmoil of facing one's own imminent extinction. Appearing here for the first time in English is a selection of these extraordinary poems that captures as closely as possible the beauty and subtlety of Tagore's original Bengali verses. A marked departure from Tagore's earlier work, these poems are, as the translators say, "so compact that it is almost as if [he]...were going beyond words, as if language no longer suffices, and yet, of course, the language radiates meaning." Poised between life and death, Tagore is awed by the beauty of this world and glimpses in it the presence of the infinite ("Such splendor illuminates a deathlessness/ hidden in the everyday by our senses' limits"). At other times, "alone by sorrow's last window," he is gripped by the sheer terror of experiencing the

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Author

selected and translated from the Bengali by Wendy Barker and Saranindranath Tagore

Publisher

George Braziller Incorporated

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807614884

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.15 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14