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Gitanjali: Song Offerings

10 best books like Gitanjali: Song Offerings (Rabindranath Tagore): The Discovery of India, The Man-Eater of Malgudi, Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road, Selected Poems, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, Selected Poems: 1931-2004, The Selected Poetry

The Discovery of India
AuthorJawaharlal Nehru
ISBN0143031031
In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects....
The Man-Eater of Malgudi
AuthorR.K. Narayan
ISBN0140185488
This is the story of Nataraj, who earns his living as a printer in the little world of Malgudi, an imaginary town in South India. Nataraj and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenia l days disturbed when Vasu, a powerful taxidermist, moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons,...
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems
AuthorLi Bai
ISBN0140442723
Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and...
Pather Panchali: Song of the Road
AuthorBibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
ISBN0253201861
Pather Panchali deals with the life of the Roy family, consisting of Harihar, Sarbajaya, Apu and Durga, both in their ancestral village Nishchindipur in rural Bengal and later when they move to Varanasi in search of a better life, as well as the anguish and loss they face during their travels.

It...
Selected Poems
AuthorGabriela Mistral
ISBN0826328180
The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant...
Collected Poems, 1948-1984
AuthorDerek Walcott
ISBN0374520259
This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been producing for...
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
AuthorDu Fu
ISBN0811211002
Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton,...
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
AuthorKabir
ISBN0807063797

Not all that long ago, in another review, I wrote that I preferred the Rabindranath Tagore translation to this one. I take it back. I was a fool to say so. Revisiting Bly’s translation recently, after more than two decades, I was struck by its clarity, its passion, its vivid and compelling voice.

I...
Selected Poems: 1931-2004
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0060188677
Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting...
The Selected Poetry
AuthorRobinson Jeffers
ISBN0804741085
In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers—in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and...
The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa
AuthorKālidāsa
ISBN8120804201
A poem of 111 stanzas, it is one of Kālidāsa's most famous works. The work is divided into two parts, Purva-megha and Uttara-megha. It recounts how a yakṣa, a subject of King Kubera (the god of wealth), after being exiled for a year to Central India for neglecting his duties, convinces a passing cloud...
Anabasis
AuthorSaint-John Perse
ISBN0156074060
Anabase selected poems, Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he...
The Country Without a Post Office
AuthorAgha Shahid Ali
ISBN0393317617
I had heard a lot about Agha Shahid Ali's poetry but never got a chance to read it until recently when I came across this book in a bookshop in Islamabad. The book is mainly set in Kashmir, a place with historical depth and rich cultural heritage, currently torn apart by occupation. Agha Shahid's poetry...
Collected Poems in English
AuthorJoseph Brodsky
ISBN0374528381
One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Here, collected for the first time, are...
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
AuthorRobert E. Buswell Jr.
ISBN0691157863
With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese,...
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
AuthorTomas Tranströmer
ISBN0811216721
The Collected Poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Tranströmer, now available in this comprehensive edition.

In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world
as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.

Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of...
मधुशाला
Authorहरिवंश राय बच्चन [Harivansh Rai Bachchan]
ISBN0140120092
I love the way Mr. Bachchan has conveyed so many messages with this book. This is an absolute treat to read. He has touched almost every aspect of human life with this. Whether its -

Hatred Based on religion

"मुसलमान और हिन्दू हैं दो,
एक,...
The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World (The Humanistic Tradition, #1)
AuthorGloria K. Fiero
ISBN0072910127
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful....
Human Wishes
AuthorRobert Hass
ISBN0880012129
my boyfriend studied with robert haas in grad school. my dad lives in the same neighborhood as robert haas and keeps meeting him at uc berkeley lectures where they end up seated together. when my dad and my boyfriend met, they bonded by unceasingly talking about robert haas as "bob." this sounds slightly...
Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi
AuthorMahmood Jamal
ISBN0140424733
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
AuthorMatsuo Bashō
ISBN0140444599
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer...
उर्वशी
AuthorRamdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
This book won Ramdhari Singh Dinkar the prestigious Jnanpith award (India). The book has many layers, and touches on topics of love, lust, asceticism, jealousy between two women wooing the same man, and the most significant of all for this book, whether the love between two persons is superficial and...
Selected Poems
AuthorBoris Pasternak
Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.'

Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind.'.
Panchatantra
AuthorVishnu Sharma
ISBN8171670652
Panchatantra, is perhaps the oldest collection of Indian Fables still surviving. It is written around 200BC by the great Hindu Scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma. Panchatantra means "the five books". It is a "Nitishastra" which means book of wise conduct in life. The book is written in the form of simple...
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