内容简介
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and mortals, the eternal and the transient, and the paradox of an endlessly changing universe that is in tune with unchanging harmonies. Poems such as "Earth" and "In the Eyes of a Peacock" present a picture of natural processes unaffected by human concerns, while others, as in "Recovery?14," convey the poet?s bewilderment about his place in the world. And exuberant works such as "New Rain" and "Grandfather?s Holiday" describe Tagore?s sheer joy at the glories of nature or simply in watching a grandchild play.
作者简介
作者:(印度)泰戈尔
泰戈尔(Rabindranath Tagore,1861-1941),印度作家,诗人,社会活动家,生于地主家庭。曾留学英国。1921年创办国际大学。一生创作丰富。1903年起陆续发表长篇小说《小沙子》、《沉船》、《戈拉》,剧本《摩吉多塔拉》、《邮局》、《红夹竹桃》,诗集《吉檀迦利》、《新月集》、《园丁集》和许多中、短篇小说。获1913年诺贝尔文学奖。
Rabindranath Tagore (1861?1941), one of India?s greatest and most prolific writers of the twentieth century, was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
William Radice is a poet, scholar, and translator of Bengali, who has written or edited nearly thirty books. He has translated Tagore?s short stories and his novel The Home and the World for Penguin Classics.
精彩书评
An important book... William Radice?s introduction is excellent.
-- The Sunday Times, London
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