From one achiever to another: Yeats’ introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’, “I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses & in restaurants, & I have often had to close I lest some stranger would see how much It moved me. These lyrics- which are in the original, my Indians tell me, full of subtlety of rhythm, of untranslatable delicacies of colour, of metrical invention- display in their thought a world I have dreamed of all my long life.”
