I Won't Let You Go [Paperback]

Rabindranath Tagore (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1991

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India's greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance. As well as poetry, he wrote songs, stories and novels, plays, essays, memoirs and travelogues. He was both a restless innovator and a superb craftsman, and the Bengali language attained great beauty and power in his hands. He created his own genre of dance drama and is one of the most important visual artists of modern India. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore's poetry has an impressive wholeness: a magnificent loving warmth, a compassionate humanity, a delicate sensuousness, an intense sense of kinship with nature and a burning awareness of man's place in the universe. He moves with effortless ease from the literal to the symbolic, from the part of the whole, from a tiny detail to the vast cosmos. He is religious in the deepest sense, wavering between a faith that sustains the spirit in times of crisis - or fills it with energy and joy in times of happiness - and a profound questioning that can find no enduring answers. To him the earth is a vulnerable mother who clings to all her offspring, saying 'I won't let you go' to the tiniest blade of grass that springs from her womb, but who is powerless to prevent the decay and death of her children. This is the revised and enlarged second edition of a substantial selection of Tagore's poems and songs translated with an illustrated introduction, notes and glossary by the bilingual writer Ketaki Kushari Dyson, who lives in Oxford. Poet, novelist, playwright, translator, linguist and critic, she is one of the outstanding Bengali writers of her generation, and has published more than thirty titles in her two languages, including acclaimed scholarly works on Tagore.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Akashpradip (1939): Green Mangoes
Akashpradip (1939): The Dark Girl
Arogya (1941): No. 7
Arogya (1941): No. 9
Balaka (1916): No. 36
Balaka (1916): No. 39
Balaka (1916): No. 6
Bithika (1935): The Indifferent One
Chaitali (1896): A Scene Of Affection
Chaitali (1896): Against Meditative Knowledge
Chaitali (1896): An Ordinary Person
Chaitali (1896): Big Sister
Chaitali (1896): Drought
Chaitali (1896): Hope Against Hope
Chaitali (1896): On The Nature Of Love
Chaitali (1896): Putu
Chaitali (1896): Renunciation
Chaitali (1896): The Companion
Chaitali (1896): The Ferry
Chaitali (1896): The Mediatrix
Chaitali (1896): The Worker
Chaitali (1896): True Meditation
Chitra (1896): Farewell To Heaven
Chitra (1896): The Victorious Woman
Janmadine (1941): No. 28
Kadi O Komal (1886): Breasts: No. 2
Kadi O Komal (1886): The Kiss
Kalpana (1900): A Stressful Time
Kalpana (1900): Dream
Kanika (1899): Give Us Deeds, Not Words
Kanika (1899): Kinship Analysed
Kanika (1899): Positive Proof
Kanika (1899): Relationship Of Convenience
Kanika (1899): Too Good
Katha (1900): The Realisation Of Value
Katha (1900): The Repayment
Kheya (1906): The Auspicious Moment
Kheya (1906): The Renunciation
Kshanika (1900): Straightforward
Kshanika (1900): What The Scriptures Say
Lipika (1922): Grief's Ingratitude
Lipika (1922): One Day
Lipika (1922): The Old House: 1
Lipika (1922): The Old House: 2
Lipika (1922): The Old House: 3
Lipika (1922): The Old House: 4
Lipika (1922): The Question: 1
Lipika (1922): The Question: 2
Mahua (1929): Disappearance
Mahua (1929): The Identity
Manasi (1890): Death-dream
Manasi (1890): Desire
Manasi (1890): The Amatory Conversation ...
Naibedya (1901): No. 88
Naibedya (1901): No. 89
Naibedya (1901): No. 90
Palataka (1918): Getting Lost
Palataka (1918): The Last Establishment
Patraput (1936): No.11
Patraput (1936): No.5
Patraput (1936): No.7
Patraput (1936): No.8
Prabhatsangit (1883): Endless Death
Prantik (1938): No. 14
Prantik (1938): No. 18
Prantik (1938): No. 5
Punashcha (1932): A Person
Punashcha (1932): By The Pond
Punashcha (1932): Carmellia
Punashcha (1932): Dwelling
Punashcha (1932): Kopai
Punashcha (1932): Memory
Punashcha (1932): The Boy
Punashcha (1932): The Last Letter
Punashcha (1932): Writing A Letter
Purabi (1925): Gratitude
Purabi (1925): The Apprehension
Purabi (1925): The Exchange
Purabi (1925): The Skeleton
Rogashajyay (1940): No. 22
Rogashajyay (1940): No. 38
Sanai (1940): Coming And Going
Sanai (1940): Impossible
Sandhyasangit (1882): Invocation To Sorrow
Sandhyasangit (1882): The Suicide Of A Star
Shesh Lekha (1941): No. 11
Shesh Lekha (1941): No. 13
Shesh Lekha (1941): No. 14
Shesh Lekha (1941): No. 15
Shesh Lekha (1941): No. 5
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 1
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 10
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 11
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 12
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 13
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 14
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 15
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 16
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 17
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 18
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 19
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 2
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 20
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 21
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 22
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 23
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 24
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 3
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 4
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 5
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 6
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 7
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 8
Shesh Lekha (1941): Songs: 9
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 1
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 11
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 13
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 2
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 22
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 27
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 29
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 3
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 31
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 46
Shesh Saptak (1935): No. 9
Shishu (1903): An Offer Of Help
Shishu (1903): Empathy
Shishu (1903): Hide-and-seek
Shishu Bholanath (1922): Remembering
Shishu Bholanath (1922): Sunday
Shyamali (1936): A Sudden Encounter
Shyamali (1936): Dream
Shyamali (1936): Tamarind Flower
Shyamali (1936): The Lost Mind
Shyamali (1936): The Nap
Shyamali (1936): The Uncoupling
Smaran (1903): No. 14
Smaran (1903): No. 5
Sonar Tari (1894): Earth
Sonar Tari (1894): I Won't Let You Go
Sonar Tari (1894): On Her Powerlessness
Sonar Tari (1894): On The Doctrine Of Maya
Sonar Tari (1894): Play
Utsarga (1903-4, 1914): No. 7
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India's greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance. As well as poetry, he wrote songs, stories and novels, plays, essays, memoirs and travelogues. He was both a restless innovator and a superb craftsman, and the Bengali language attained great beauty and power in his hands. As a poet, novelist, musician, and playwright, Tagore reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As author of Gitanjali and its 'profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse', he became Asia's first Nobel laureate by winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore denounced the British Raj and supported the Indian Independence Movement. His efforts endure in his vast canon and in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University. Two Tagore songs are the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: 'Amar Shonar Bangla' and 'Jana Gana Mana'. Ketaki Kushari Dyson's acclaimed edition of his poetry, I Won't Let You Go: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1991; second enlarged edition, 2010), was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Dufour Editions (January 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852241195
• ISBN-13: 978-1852241193
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A concise report of Tagore's life precedes what can be considered, altogether with Radice's, the most beautifully rendered translations of Tagore by someone else than himself. Don't let this book go neither... God: preserve the translator's life and competence as long as You did for the original author.