| Author |
|
|---|---|
| Original title | গীতাঞ্জলি |
| Country | British Raj |
| Language | Bengali |
| Subject | Devotion to God |
| Genre | Poem |
Publication date | 1910 |
Published in English | 1912 |
| Pages | 104 |
Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'', IPA: [git̪ɑːnd͡ʒoli]) is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English translation, Song Offerings. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is 'I am here to sing thee songs' (No. XV).
History
The original Bengali collection of 156/157 poems was published on August 14, 1910.
Reworking in English
The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 104 English prose poems,[1] which are Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the Indian Society of London. It contained translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems from his other works.[2] The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance fusing two separate poems (song 95, which unifies songs 89,90 of Naivedya). [3] The English Gitanjali became popular in the West, and was widely translated.[4]
References
- ^ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gitanjali
- ^ Ghosal, Sukriti. "The Language of Gitanjali: the Paradoxical Matrix" (PDF). The Criterion: An International Journal in English. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ^ books.google.de, Sukriti. "Gitanjali: Song Offerings". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ Gitanjali: Selected Poems (2010-07-30). "Gitanjali: Selected Poems". School of Wisdom. Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2012-07-11.