Selected Writings on Literature and Language

by Tagore, Rabindranath; Chaudhuri, Sukanta; Ghosh, Sankha; Das, Sisir Kumar

• ISBN13: 9780195656473
• ISBN10: 0195656474
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection presents new translations of Tagore's provocative critical writings, cornerstones of modern Bengali criticism. The essays span his entire career and invoke his lifelong engagement with the central issues of criticism as well as literary theory and aesthetics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(21)
Silent Poet, Untaught Poet	22	(7)
`De Profundis'	29	(8)
On Changes in the State of Poetry	37	(5)
Baul Songs	42	(7)
Literature (1889)	49	(46)
From The Five Elements
A First Acquaintance	51	(9)
Prose and Verse	60	(8)
The Significance of a Poem	68	(7)
Lucidity	75	(4)
Mirth	79	(5)
The Measure of Mirth	84	(7)
A Novel Ramayana	91	(4)
The Theatre	95	(6)
Children's Rhymes	101	(27)
Rural Literature	128	(10)
World Literature	138	(13)
Literary Creation	151	(13)
The Sense of Beauty	164	(15)
Bengali National Literature	179	(15)
The Historical Novel	194	(5)
A Poet's Biography	199	(4)
Vidyapati's Radhika	203	(4)
The Nature of Krishna	207	(15)
The Meghadutam	222	(4)
Kumarasambhavam and Shakuntala	226	(11)
Shakuntala	237	(15)
The Ramayana	252	(6)
Literature (1924)	258	(7)
Creation	265	(9)
The Poet's Defence	274	(6)
Modern Poetry	280	(13)
The Philosophy of Literature	293	(17)
Presidential Address	310	(10)
The Poet Yeats	320	(6)
The True Nature of Literature	326	(5)
The Prose Poem	331	(4)
Introduction to the Bengali Language	335	(11)
About Language	346	(12)
The Bengali of Maktabs and Madrasas	358	(3)
Notes	361