The Philosophical Inheritance of Rabindranath Tagore

1916 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. S. Urquhart
Keyword(s):  
Rabindranath Tagore

Betrayal of betrothed in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of rain

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. RUBY VANEESA ◽  
Dr. S. AYYAPPA RAJA
Keyword(s):  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
The University

Sunetra Gupta was born in Calcutta in 1965 and is an established translator of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. She is a well known novelist, essayist and scientist. She is working as Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University in the Department of Zoology. From Princeton University she got graduation in 1987 and from the University of London she received Ph.D. in 1992. Her father, Dhruba Gupta had a profound influence on every view of her thinking

Quintessence of Truth and Beauty in the Writings of Rabindranath Tagore and Keats A Comparative Analysis

IJOHMN ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-68
Author(s):  
Swati Rani Debnath
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Spiritual Discipline ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Spiritual Perspective ◽  
Eye Opening ◽  
Sensual Pleasure ◽  
The Universe

In literary works, truth and beauty have been expressed in a varied number of ways by authors of all genres. Rabindranath Tagore and John Keats, two prominent writers from two languages have linked beauty and truth in philosophical manners in many of their writings. Beauty and truth are not separate entities; they flow from the same spring. Tagore views beauty as linked to eternal characteristics of nature and truth is associated with it. Keats sees beauty from spiritual perspective and according to him, realization of truth leads to the fulfillment of beauty. Readers of Tagore and Keats get eye-opening insights from the viewpoints that are followed by their expressions in regarding the tenets of truth and beauty. Truth and beauty fulfill each other in their harmonious existence in the universe. The authors make us realize that beauty does not emanate merely from sensual pleasure; it is an abstract idea, a spiritual understanding that originates from rhythmic attachment with truth. This article compares and contrasts philosophies of truth and beauty from the writings of Tagore and Keats. In doing so, the paper investigates the literary works of the two writers and explores how they have philosophized truth and beauty in the domain of human thought as well as in the realm of spiritual discipline.

Mei Wan Mei Liao

Songings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Anhuai Yu
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Chinese Translation ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore

This is the Chinese translation for the first poem of Gitanjali, a collection of poems, written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

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