Rabindranath Tagore as a Philosophical Voyager: A Critical Study of Gitanjali

A multi-faceted creative personality, Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest stalwarts of both English and Bengali literatures. He created a Renaissance in India, where people were awakened by the great corpus of creative work produced during the country's struggle for independence from the British. Tagore was undoubtedly a champion of this literary protest. He produced masterpieces in Bengali literature and later translated them into English. Gitanjali, his masterpiece collection of poems with a foreword by William Butler Yeats, is renowned for its rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. It won Tagore the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first awarded to an Asian writer, and a knighthood. In this landmark study, noted Indian scholar P. V. Laxmiprasad offers the most comprehensive critical study of Tagore's work to date. About the Author Dr. P.V. Laxmiprasad, M.A., Ph.D. (English) is an eminent academician, an erudite scholar, a literary critic and a senior editor. A teacher with two decades of experience, he is working in the Department of English, Satavahana University, Karimnagar, Telangana. With a scholarly output of 15 books in English Literature, he has served the cause of Indian Writing in English. His publications speak of his outstanding credentials and long-standing contribution to literature. All his publications have been internationally acclaimed by critics and authors. Overall, he has 300 publications to his credit.