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Gitanjali (LibriVox audio reading)

Rabindranath Tagore · 1913

A volunteer audio reading of Tagore's Nobel-winning poem collection Gitanjali, written by Tagore himself.

Gitanjali is Tagore's own poetry collection, the work that won him the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, 1913. LibriVox volunteer audio reading (not the author's voice).

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What it is

This is a LibriVox volunteer audio recording of Gitanjali, a collection of 103 poems largely translated into English by Rabindranath Tagore himself. The English edition was published in 1913 with a preface by W. B. Yeats.

Why it matters

Gitanjali made Tagore famous in the West and helped him become the first non-European writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. The poems reveal his spiritual and poetic voice at the height of his international recognition.

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  • Why might these poems have appealed so strongly to Western readers in 1913?
  • How might something be lost or changed when a poem is translated from Bengali into English?
  • This recording is a modern volunteer reading — how is that different from hearing Tagore's own voice?

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