Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore

In his ‘Song Offerings to the Creator’, Rabindranath Tagore uses modernized images from classical Indian love poetry to symbolize his yearning to merge with God. The mud-stained traveller, the parched summer earth, the bride awaiting the return of her lord, the first monsoon shower, the flowers, the rivers and the conch are images which gain a mystical depth in these poems.

Included in this edition is WB Yeat’s introduction to the first edition of Tagore’s English rendering of Gitanjali.