Tagore
In Our Time: Culture
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Tagore's Reputation as a Poet
In 1928 he put this lid on the debate with Shishit Gobita farewell my friend which is actually a novel but it ends with a beautiful poem. He actually put himself in his place didn't he in one of his poems he said to cause to God's past it now and he's writing that. His reputation did dip for a while didn't it in the 40s strictly 50s am I wrong here? No you're certainly no no absolutely not in the 1920s and 30s, though there was a spate of translations so his reputation suffered a dip. But aside of Tagore's reputation in the 30s is the fact that he reinvents himself as a painter as an
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