nature dweller Abundance of love is Rabindranath Tagore, Witty I had to put the book on the side to laugh, Even though I agree with Tagores thoughts most of the time, especially on nature I consider myself to be a follower of a similar mind and heart, the letters tends to be repetitive after a while.
One can quite safely assume that he is going to talk about the river, the sun and the wind, and one would be right,
There are occasional glimpses of the literary mind, coming across in poems, in certain thoughts, like when he talks about heaven and immortality.
If taken enough time to read the book in a very leisurely manner, it will appear good, but for someone like me who reads a book everyday while travelling, the repetition tends to get very boring easily.
As a young man, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a series of letters to his niece during what he described as the most productive period of his life.
By turns contemplative and playful, gentle and impassioned, Tagores letters abound in incredible insightsfrom sharply comical portrayals of English sahibs to lively anecdotes about family life, from thoughts on the nature of poetry to spiritual contemplation and inner feeling.
And coursing through all these letters, like a ceaseless heartbeat, is Tagores deep love for the natural splendour of Bengal, In this manner, this volume also serves as a prose companion to his magnificent work Gitanjali,
Letters from a Young Poet shimmers with wit and warmth, and offers unforgettable vignettes of the young poet in those happy days before extraordinary fame found him.
I'm writing this right after reading the book because never have I ever felt in so many instances that I'm not getting into a book I'm reading.
Tagore's writing and knowledge is immense but personally, there were so many pages I had to skim read because it sounded repititive, Having this as an introduction to such a celebrated writer and poet, I was a little bummed,
Hopefully I can find other works of his that I can 'get' into without skim reading most parts, Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature inbecause of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of
the West.
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures, His novels, stories, songs, dance dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal, Gitanjali Song Offerings, Gora Fair Faced, and Ghare Baire The Home and the World are his best known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimedor pannedfor their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation.
His compositions were chosen by two nations as nat Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.
"Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures, His novels, stories, songs, dance dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal, Gitanjali Song Offerings, Gora Fair Faced, and Ghare Baire The Home and the World are his best known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimedor pannedfor their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation.
His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla, The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore রবনদর রচনবল in the original Bengali are now available at these third party websites: sitelink sitelink sitelink,
Get Hold Of Letters From A Young Poet 1887 1895 Developed By Rabindranath Tagore Released As Readable Copy
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