W B Yeats (1865 – 1939)
“I read Rabindranath everyday. To read one line of his is to forget all the troubles of the world”.
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May Sinclair
Byadmin“No wonder that Mr. Tagore appeals so strongly to the common heart of his people and that his songs are sung and understood in the villages of his province as well as in the churches of the Brahma Samaj.” “I should not have said that these song-offerings are ”one side” of him. They are, rather,…
Per Hallstorm (1866 – 1960)
Byadmin“It is certain, however, that no poet in English since the death of Goethe in 1832 can rival Tagore in noble humanity.”
C.F Andrews (1871 – 1940)
Byadmin“The first subject of discussion was idols; Gandhi defended them, believing the masses incapable of raising themselves immediately to abstract ideas. Tagore cannot bear to see the people eternally treated as a child. Gandhi quoted the great things achieved in Europe by the flag as an idol; Tagore found it easy to object, but Gandhi…
Beatrice Webb (1858 – 1943)
ByadminHe was “beautiful to look at” and that “his speech has the perfect intonation and slow chant-like moderation of the dramatic saint.”
Romain Rolland (1866 – 1944)
ByadminRomain Rolland was fascinated by the contrast between them, and when he completed his book on Gandhi, he wrote to an Indian academic, in March 1923: “I have finished my Gandhi, in which I pay tribute to your two great river-like souls, overflowing with divine spirit, Tagore and Gandhi.”
Victoria Ocampo (1890 – 1979)
ByadminVictoria read Gitanjali in 1914 and said ‘it fell like celestial dew on my anguishing twenty four year old heart’. She described Tagore’s poetry as ‘magical mysticism’. She felt powerful echoes in Tagore´s personal loving God, radiating happiness and serenity, unlike the demanding and vengeful God imposed on her in childhood.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore:
“because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”