Rabindranath Tagore Selected Essays

Rabindranath Tagore:Selected Essays is a collection of the author's most acclaimed essays. The Poet's Religion and The Creative Ideal reveal someof his fundamental tenets of art and aesthetics, of life and religion, and 'the religion of the poet'.The essays in Sadhana (1913) tell us of the ancient spirit of India, as revealed in our sacred texts and manifested in the life of today. Crisis in Civilisation (Sabhyatar Samkat) was the last public address delivered by Tagore on April 14,1941.The essays incorporatedfrom The Religion of Man (1941) are an extensive and commandingexposition of Tagore's understanding of the meaning and significance of religion in the cultural history of man. Greater India (1921) deals with the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal,one of the most turbulent periods in Indian history.One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map of the world when his Gitanjali was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Myriadminded,he was a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, painter and composer of songs.