The First Jasmines

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The First Jasmines by Rabindranath Tagore, in honour of the author's birthday May 7. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 3, 2015. Read in English by Andrew Coleman; Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Greg Giordano; Ian King; J. McDougall; Lee Ann Howlett; Leonard Wilson; Maria Kasper; NoelBadrian; Peter Yearsley and Rosslyn Carlyle. Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded…

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Rabindranath Tagore

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librivox; audiobooks; literature; poetry; memories; childhood

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