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TITLE: Fruit Gathering
AUTHOR: Rabindranath Tagore
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co.
PLACE: New York
YEAR: 1916
EDITION: First
NO.OF PAGES: 123
BINDING: Half leather with blue cloth, banded spine with gilt panelling, gilt top edge
SIZE:
Height: 19.2 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 1.7 cm
ACCOMPANIED BY HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM DWARKANATH TAGORE - GRANDFATHER OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
"Mens cujusque is est Quisque" - "Mind Makes the Man" - From Samuel Pepys' bookplate pasted on the endpaper.
Original 2 page letter of size 8 x 5 inches (each) written from Hotel Bristol [London], dated 14 January 1846 and Signed by Dwarkanath Tagore to Mrs. Austin, regretting he was not one of her party going to see Madame Rachel, "that celebrated actress", assuring her he took no offence and hoping that plan was being made for today. Written and signed in ink.
Dwarkanath Tagore (1794-1846), was one of the first Indian industrialists and entrepreneurs, was the founder of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family, and is notable for making substantial contributions to the Bengal Renaissance. A restless soul, with a firm conviction that his racial identity was not a barrier between him and other Britons as long as he remained loyal to the British Sovereign, Tagore was well received by Queen Victoria and many other British and European notables during his two trips to the West in the 1840s; he died in London after a brief illness. He was the grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore.
"Fruit-Gathering" is in its entirety as a gathering of various Tagore poems from other works.
Rabindranath Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature "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".
In presenting the Prize to Tagore, Harald Hjarne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy, stated: "In awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Anglo-Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, the Academy has found itself in the happy position of being able to accord this recognition to an author who, in conformity with the express wording of Alfred Nobel's last will and testament, had during the current year, written the finest poems of an idealistic tendency...Tagore's Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), a collection of religious poems, was one of his works that especially arrested the attention of the selecting critics."
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