Purabi brings together 52 of Tagore´s poems and songs. The collection reveals a very different Tagore from the one the West has come to know, bringing to light a passionate poet who celebrated the wonders of this earth instead of just pondering the mysteries of the other world and whose irrepressible love of life was tinged with an acute awareness of its inexorable limits and tragedies.
Includes a CD of Tagore songs and recitations in English and Bengali.
Table of Contents
The East in its Feminine Gender: A Historical and Literary Introduction
Krishna Bose, Sugata Bose
Poems
Urbashi
The Black Tulip
The Image
Shakespeare
A Letter from Youth
The Spring
Playmate
Last Offering
Fulfilment
The Call
Fleeting Moment
Stranger
Hope
Grateful
Future
The Past
Adolescent Love
Alien Flower
The Guest
Last Spring
The Key
Exchange or La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Italia
The Hidden
Return
Query
Songs
Songs of Devotion
Nataraj
Rising Sun
Lone Wild Man
Songs of Youth
Break Down All Barriers
Harbinger of Youth
Songs of Love
In The Fairy Tale
Life’s Precious Moment
Why So Restless
Songs of Summer
Come Baisakh
Summer Storm
Songs of Rain
Ashaar
Sraban
Shadows Darken
Greetings to the Rain
The Neepa Grove
My Heart is Dancing
Wild Wind on a Rainy Day
The Dark Sky
Peals of Thunder
Autumn Song
Rice Fields
Songs of Winter
Winter’s Day
Winter Wind
Songs of Spring
My Veena
the Door on the South
Spring Breeze
The Song of the Poet
Eternal Me