Gitanjali
by Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore's prose-poem song offerings in his own English translation, the collection that won the 1913 Nobel: devotion, longing, death and joy addressed to the divine. Short and luminous, free online.
Read it if…
you want devotional poetry from outside the Western tradition.
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Skip it if…
you dislike religious or devotional verse.
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Three things you will actually use
- Devotion can be intimate and plain.
- Death is addressed, not avoided.
- Joy is the ground note.
Do this first
Read ten poems slowly in one sitting.
Our verdict
Luminous Nobel classic.
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