Glimpses of Bengal + Fruit Gathering (Tagore)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.The letters translated in this book span the most produc¬tive period of my literary life when owing to great good fortune I was young and less known.Youth being exuberant and leisure ample I felt the writing of letters other than business ones to be a delight¬ful necessity. This is a form of literary extravagance only possible when a surplus of thought and emotion accumu¬lates. Other forms of literature remain the author’s and are made public for his good; letters that have been given to private individuals once for all are therefore character¬ised by the more generous abandonment.It so happened that selected extracts from a large number of such letters found their way back to me years after they had been written. It had been rightly conjec¬tured that they would delight me by bringing to mind the memory of days when under the shelter of obscurity I enjoyed the greatest freedom my life has ever known.Fruit Gathering was first published in 1916. Three varying styles of thought and writing merge in Fruit Gathering and one is presented with a mystic Tagore with only one voice. The poems collected are from Gitimala Gitali Naivedya Kheya etc.