- List of Illustrations
- Foreword: Poetry as Polemic / Amit Chaudhuri
- Introduction
- 1. Autobiography
- Autobiographical
- From Reminiscences
- From Boyhood Days
- My School
- 2. Letters
- From Torn Leaves
- From Letter-Fragments
- To Mrinalini Devi
- To Jagadish Chandra Bose
- To Myron H. Phelps
- To William Rothenstein
- To Robert Bridges
- To James Drummonds Anderson
- To Lord Chelmsford
- To Charles Freer Andrews
- To Kanti Chandra Ghosh
- To Edward John Thompson
- To Kazi Nazrul Islam
- To Romain Rolland
- To Sir William Rothenstein
- To Mahatma Gandhi
- To Mahadev Desai
- To Sufia Kamal
- To Pulinbehari Sen
- To Victoria Ocampo
- To Revd. Foss Westcott
- 3. Prose
- From Self-Reliance and Other Essays
- Statecraft and Ethics
- The Components of Literature
- The Significance of Literature
- The Problem of Self
- Nationalism in the West
- The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- From Thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
- My Pictures
- Hindus and Muslims
- The Tenant Farmer
- Crisis in Civilization
- 4. Poems
- The Fountain’s Awakening
- Enough, Enough!
- Life
- Undressed
- Breasts
- Kissing
- The Golden Boat
- The Two Birds
- I Won’t Let You Go
- Unfathomable
- Voyage without End
- To Civilization
- My Little Plot of Land
- A Hundred Years from Now
- The Lord of Life
- Love Queries
- Krishnakali
- The Poet
- The Hero
- Big and Small
- Astronomy
- On the Day Thou Breakst Through This My Name
- More Life, My Lord
- Thy Rod of Justice
- The Day I Depart
- It Hasn’t Rained in My Heart
- When Life Dries Up
- If the Day Ends
- This Stormy Night
- A Flight of Geese
- The Restless One
- Dawn and Dusk
- Free!
- Sunday
- Hymn to the Tree
- Woman Empowered
- Wind Instrument
- Letter Writing
- An Ordinary Woman
- Camellia
- The Twenty-Fifth of Baisakh
- I
- Africa
- I Saw in the Twilight
- Romantic
- The Night Train
- Waking Up in the Morning I See
- They Work
- On the Banks of Roop-Naran
- The Sun of the First Day
- Dark Nights of Sorrow
- On the Way to Creation
- 5. Songs
- Devotional Songs
- Patriotic Songs
- Love Songs
- Songs of Nature
- Miscellaneous Songs
- 6. Plays
- Roktokorobi
- The Kingdom of Cards
- 7. Stories
- The Return of Khoka Babu
- The Legacy
- Shubha
- Mahamaya
- The In-Between Woman
- Hungry Stone
- A Broken Nest
- The Wife’s Letter
- The Final Word
- The Tale of a Muslim Woman
- 8. Novels
- From Gora
- From Connections
- From Farewell Song
- From Four Chapters
- 9. Humor
- Denge the Black Ant’s Observations
- Aryans and Non-Aryans
- The Funeral
- Ordeal
- Testing the Student
- The Invention of Shoes
- From Out of Sync
- 10. Travel Writing
- The City of Bombay
- Crossing the Ocean
- Travel
- Stopford Brooke
- The English Village and the Clergy
- From Journey to Japan
- Letter to Pratima Devi
- From Letters from Russia
- From In Persia
- Chronology
- Notes
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
The Essential Tagore
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Publication Date: 11/24/2014
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Awards & Accolades
- A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2011
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