Gitanjali
by Rabindranath Tagore
Indian English • Public Domain • Free to stream
Gitanjali (Song Offerings) is the collection of devotional poems by Rabindranath Tagore for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first Asian writer to receive this honour. Tagore originally wrote the poems in Bengali; the English prose-poetry translation, made by Tagore himself with the encouragement of W.B. Yeats, captures their lyrical, spiritual intensity. The poems express a profound sense of the divine in nature and human experience, combining personal devotion with universal longing. Tagore was a poet, philosopher, composer, and polymath who transformed Bengali literature and Indian culture. Stream free, no account required.
About the book: Gitanjali
Gitanjali, which translates as Song offering, is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. The original Bengali collection was published on 4 August 1910. The translated version, titled Gitanjali: Song Offerings, was published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It consists of 103 prose poems of Tagore's own English translations, containing 53 poems from the original Gitanjali and 50 other poems extracted from his other works.
The central theme of the collection is devotion, with its motto being I am here to sing thee songs. The poems were based on medieval Indian lyrics of devotion with a common theme of love across most poems. Some poems also narrated a conflict between the desire for materialistic possessions and spiritual longing.
Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for the English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European, the first Asian, and the only Indian to receive this honour.
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