Acclaimed by Forster and Pound, for Yeast the poet whose poetry stirred my blood as nothing has for years Tagore was and remains India s greatest writer this century. Prolific and innovatory as poet, novelist, dramatist, musician and painter, he was also a leading figure in the Nationalist movement, an intimate of Gandhi, a vastly influential educationalist and philosopher and a luminary in world culture. William Radice s selections and translations from the Bengali reintroduce Tagore to a new generation of Western Readers. A companion volume to this edition, Tagore s Selected Short Stories is also published in Penguin, and includes a full introduction, selected letters and a glossary.