Victoria Ocampo was Tagore’s Argentine admirer who looked after him for 58 days in a beautiful mansion in San Isidro (outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina) by the river Plata, when the poet had to stop for medical rest whilst on his way to Peru to attend the centenary celebrations of independence.
Victoria 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.