Girlymaddy
By Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore(1861--1941), was the first non-White to receive Nobel prize (1913) for
Literature. The event of course caused some furor at the time. New York Times in its prodigious
generosity consoled its readers by alluding to the fact that after all Tagore was of Aryan Stock. It was
first published in 1913 as a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali
(a language of India) Poems. Evidence does indicate that the poet W.B. Yeats had a hand in editing an publishing it!
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