William Butler Yeats championed the writings of Rabindranath Tagore and brought Gitanjali to the attention of the Nobel Prize committee, leading it to be awarded the prize for Literature. In the introduction to the book, Yeats writes:
"These lyrics ... display in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my life long. [They are] the work of a supreme culture ... where poetry and religion are the same.... We are not moved because of its strangeness, but because we have met our own image."
It is amazing, looking back, that a book of essentially devotional poems was nominated and went on to win the greatest prize in western literature, tribute to Yeats efforts.
The entire introduction is worth reading. The Divine Cool Breeze has published a edition of Gitanjali, the first in a series of eight Divine Cool Breeze Books.
William Butler Yeats championed the writings of Rabindranath Tagore and brought Gitanjali to the attention of the Nobel Prize committee, leading it to be awarded the prize for Literature. In the introduction to the book, Yeats writes:
"These lyrics ... display in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my life long. [They are] the work of a supreme culture ... where poetry and religion are the same.... We are not moved because of its strangeness, but because we have met our own image."
It is amazing, looking back, that a book of essentially devotional poems was nominated and went on to win the greatest prize in western literature, tribute to Yeats efforts.
The entire introduction is worth reading. The Divine Cool Breeze has published a edition of Gitanjali, the first in a series of eight Divine Cool Breeze Books.