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Gitanjali

Written by: Rabindranath Tagore
Narrated by: Michael Fitzpatrick
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Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the poet, polymath, musician, and artist Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who modernised Bengali literature and Indian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tagore is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal". First published in 1912, the English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems. It comprised translations of poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as poems drawn from his other books of poetry like Gitimalya, Naivedya, and Kheya and from his drama Achalayatan.  

Many of the translations are indirect, altering, or omitting large parts of the poem or fusing two separate poems. In 1913, Tagore was the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, mainly for the English Gitanjali. The compound word "gitanjali" literally means "song offering" but the part meaning offering, "anjali" has a devotional undertone, so the title may also be rendered as "hymn offering".
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without continuity

it is an excellent set of poems but the way this book is structured is very problematic because there are no chapters and there is no pause between the poems so it is a continuous rambling in a way.... the rendition of Mr Michael is excellent but the flow is disturbing..... I hope somebody who is reading this can change the format and render the audio book again and what an excellent pleasure it will be in case it happens

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