Who among the following wrote the first introduction to the first collection of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali ?
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A.
T.S. Eliot
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B.
T.E, Hulme
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C.
W.B. Yeast
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D.
Rabindranath Tagore
Correct Answer:
C. W.B. Yeast
Explanation:
The 1910 Indian publication of Rabindranath Tagore's "Gitanjali" featured an introduction by W.B. Yeats. The 1912 English version, titled "Song Offerings" and published by the India Society of London, consists of 103 prose poems translated by Tagore himself from his original Bengali works. This collection, which includes 53 poems from the primary "Gitanjali" and selections from other volumes, earned Tagore the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, confirming that option (c) is the right choice.
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