This book is a collection of two poetry selections by Tagore including The Crescent Moon and The Flight of Cranes. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and other-worldly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West. His ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.