MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LITERATURE: GITANJALI (Special Nook Edition) by RABINDRANATH TAGORE (Indian Bengali Winner of the NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE and Author of Home and the World) Poetry Influence on William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz

Gitanjali is a collection of 103 English poems, large translations, of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated. The translations were undertaken prior to a visit to England in 1912, where the poems were extremely well received. A slender volume was published in 1913, with an exhilarating preface by W. B. Yeats. In the same year, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel prize.

The poems of Gitanjali express a…