Crossing Hardcover – 1 September 2002 by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore . Rupa & Co . English
Crossing was first published in 1918, along with Lover's Gift. It consists of seventy-four poems, which are mainly religious. Many of the translations are transcreations and paraphrases of the original. Poems have been sourced from Naivedya (1907), Kheya (1906), Gitanjali (1910), Gitimalya (1914) and Gitali (1914).
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About the Author
Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel Laureate for Literature (1913) as well as one of India’s greatest poets and the composer of independent India’s national anthem, as well as that of Bangladesh. He wrote successfully in all literary genres, but was first and foremost a poet, publishing more than 50 volumes of poetry. He was a Bengali writer who was born in Calcutta and later traveled around the world. He was knighted in 1915, but gave up his knighthood after the massacre of demonstrators in India in 1919.
