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    The Tagores tried to combine traditional Indian culture with Western ideas. Tagore was the first Indian to bring an element of psychological realism to his novels. His writing is viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and other-wordly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West.This volume consists of a novel, a memoir, selection of short stories and collection of 103 poems called Gitanjali.

    Tagore was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. These land mark works all have a lyrical, rhythmic quality that makes them both accessible and beautiful.

    The enchantment is immediate. The magic carpet waits to bear the reader to the high and far-off mountains of wonder, where animals reveal themselves for what most children know they are - human beings in disguise.The animals in these stories talk a human language. They are wise and kindly, cruel and foolish, just as we are ourselves. They are easy to know and believe in.In this collection of animal stories, the compiler has ranged far and well. There are stories from India, from Africa, from Europe and North America. There are modern and ancient myths and legends. The young reader will find old friends here, and some he may never have met before. He will find too the work of such distinguished writers as Joseph Jacobs, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Waldemar Bonsels, and the Brothers Grimm. But most important of all, he will find delight.

    Noted literary critic Harold Bloom, at the time a relative newcomer to, rather than a giant of, the American intellectual scene, compiled the best short poems from the canon of English romantic poetry for this comprehensive volume.Contains work by the six major romantics (Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth), as well as that of Collins, Scott, Landor, Peacock, Clare, Darley, Hartley Coleridge, Hood, Beddoes, Palmer, and Wade.