Tagore as Philosophical Voyager: A Critical Study of Gitanjali

By P. V. Laxmiprasad

A multi-faceted creative personality, Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest stalwarts of both English and Bengali literatures. He created a Renaissance in India, where people were awakened by the great corpus of creative work produced during the country's struggle for independence from the British. Tagore was undoubtedly a champion of this literary protest. He produced masterpieces in Bengali literature and later translated them into English. Gitanjali, his masterpiece collection of poems with a foreword by William Butler Yeats, is renowned for its rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. It won Tagore the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first awarded to an Asian writer, and a knighthood. In this landmark study, noted Indian scholar P. V. Laxmiprasad offers the most comprehensive critical study of Tagore's work to date.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168053937X
• ISBN13: 9781680539370
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"