“I came out alone on my way to my tryst.

But who is this that follows me in the silent dark?

I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not.

He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger;

He adds his loud voice to every word that I utter.

He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame,

But I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company.”

Rabindranath Tagore is the greatest Indian poet.He is widely regarded as the writer of thousands of poems, songs, dramas, fictions, short stories, essays and numerous works of nonfictions.He famous for the invention of the modern Bengali short story and is credited with introducing colloquial speech into Bengali literature.Not only Bengali he also wrote in English. In his seventies, Tagore began painting and made a significant contribution to modern Indian art. Tagore began painting and made a significant contribution to modern Indian art.

Tagore For You , is a sparkling collection in English of novels, poems, letters of Rabindranath Tagore and also enriched with the famous poetry collection "Songs offerings" for which Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature .This precious publication also contains Tagore's paintings. It is a garland of his incalculable creations. I hope ,readers will take pleasure to keep it close to their hearts forever.

The reason that has whet my desire and interest to write this book - Rabindranath Tagore wrote with great abundance, even in English. And the present anthology of his English writings purpose to showcase almost the entire gamut. Apart, from the letters, most of the writings are translations. He wrote mellifluously in English just as he did in Bengali, displaying the same confident strength of his genius, the same high norm of stylistic elegance and intellectual brilliance.

His finest single achievement in English is his Song-offerings, this collection is also included. Tagore's English Gitanjali (Song-offerings) evinces a sensibility of language animated by both a sense of compassion and artifice, taking us to the lofty rendezvous of the poet's intense personal engagement with GOD. His supreme discourse on the realization of the infinite deeply penetrates into the quivering meaning of existence.

We can see, even in his English writings Rabindranath dosen't let words run away with him. Far too good a craftsman for that, he chooses his words with immense care and displays his usual passionate intensity. And most of his English writings also have the characteristic mystic essence.

However, no selection of Rabindranath Tagore's writings can be universally satisfactory. Differences of opinion will always be true. The writings in this volume have tried to cover the entire range, from the simple to the contemplative, from the dramatic to the narrative, from the passionate to the complex. I believe this book would be a precious possession for all the readers as it is a selective compilation of Gurudev's priceless creation.

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