Gitanjali (Unabridged)

Gitanjali (Unabridged)

Title: Gitanjali (Unabridged)
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Release: 2024-12-10
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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Gitanjali (Unabridged) Rabindranath Tagore
As a special bonus this audiobook also includes an "Ambient Version" specially made for relaxation and meditation.

Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.

The collection by Tagore, originally written in Bengali, comprises 157 poems, many of which have been turned into songs or Rabindrasangeet. The original Bengali collection was published on 4 August 1910. The translated version Gitanjali: Song Offerings was published in November 1912 by the India Society of London which contained translations of 53 poems from the original Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems extracted from Tagore’s Achalayatana, Gitimalya, Naivadya, Kheya, and more.

Overall, Gitanjali: Song Offerings consists of 103 prose poems of Tagore’s own English translations. 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.

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