News at Eleven: Sun, you have removed

Your rays: show now your loveliest, kindliest form
That I may see the Person who dwells in me as in you.

[Rabindranath] Tagore's vision links the personal with the universal. His writing embodies the great truths that poets of genius bring to us. Indeed, Indian people regard Tagore as their Shakespeare.

Ian Jack also writes, "No translation . . . lives up to the job." Yet the brilliance of Radice's Tagore translations has allowed many to appreciate Tagore's genius.

from The Guardian: It's wrong to dismiss the influence of this Bengali poet

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