Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, whose central theme is devotion and whose motto is I am here to sing thee songs. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European, the first Asian, and the only Indian to receive the honor. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Is the English Gitanjali a direct translation of the Bengali book?
It is a selection of 103 prose poems by Tagore himself; only 53 come from the Bengali Gitanjali.
No. The English Song Offerings of 1912 holds 103 prose poems, which are Tagore's own translations, but only 53 of them come from the original Bengali Gitanjali. The other 50 were taken from his other collections. The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large parts of the poems, and in one case joining two separate poems into one.
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Gitanjali...is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
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The original Bengali collection was published on 4 August 1910.
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is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
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Song offering) is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
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Gitanjali...is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
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is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore
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