The Lover of God (Lannan Literary Selections)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556591969 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 90 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the founding editor of Ausable Press and lives in rural New York, with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks.. Chase Twichell is the author of five books of poetry and the best-selling Practice of Poetry
An introduction, a postscript, and a translation of Tagore's facetious biography of the ostensible poet invaluably complete a lovely volume. All rights reserved. Twichell's free versions, based on Stewart's literal parsings and printed face-to-face with the Bengali text, evoke the spiritual content that kept Tagore's interest: the longing for god that only death fulfills. Directly about the beloved of adolescent Krishna during his sojourn as a human, the poems contain two voices, that of the longing girl, Radha, and that of a counselor, seemingly an older woman, who consoles her and chides the god for his absence. But they were a hoax at the expense of European-inspired literary archaeologists mining Indian literature for forgotten treasure. Ray OlsonCopyright © American Library Association. Moreover, though he was coy about their worth throughout his long career, the 1913 Nobel laureate last r
He participated in the Indian nationalist movement, and was a devoted friend of Mahatma Gandhi. Tagore's supressed book now available in an English-Bengali editionFor the first time in English, here is the sequence of poems Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) worked on his entire lifethe erotic and emotionally powerful dialogue about Lord Krishna and his young lover Radha.These "song offerings" are the first poems Tagore ever published, though he passed them off as those of an unknown Bengali religious poet. This bilingual Bengali-English edition also includes the "biography" Tagore wrote of the unknown religious poet who supposedly authored these poems.Rabindranath Tagore was born in Bengal, the youngest son of a religious reformer and scholar. In his mature years he managed the family estates, which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. As the first and last poems Tagore wrote and revised, they represent the entrance and exit t
Tagore poems on Love and Longing This is a collections of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore and revised over a period of about 65 years. They are the first and last poems that he ever wrote. They are poems of love and longing drawing on Indian culture, history, and spirituality. The original poems written in Bengali are on the left pages while the translations into English are on the right.What is exceptionally beautiful about this book is that the translations are not only accurate, but they also carry feelings and emotion with them as much as pos