A Tagore Reader

by Amiya Chakravarty

Genres: Poetry

401 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2003

Reviews

[Rose Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I checked out this book to read Tagore's poetry but it included a great deal more than: travelogues, letters, short stories, autobiographical information, conversations with Einstein and other noted men, fables, drama, his thoughts on the future of India and on education. There were large sections on art and literary criticism and philosophical meditation. It also included excerpts from letters to him from Albert Schweitzer, Robert Frost and George Bernard Shaw.

[Aaron White · Rating 4.5 out of 5]

Indian author Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861-1941) profound and wide-ranging thoughts on literature, culture, education, colonialism, faith, and much more through his letters, essays, plays, short stories and poetry. Tagore is a thinker I had not encountered before, and the expanse of his wisdom plus the depth and fire of his compassion have truly moved me.

[Micebyliz]

read this quite some time ago but forgot to note it. used to quote some of them poems but needed a refresher.

[Don Diego · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read selected poems, not the entire book. What I read, I enjoyed very much.