Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Edward John Thompson, a young English poet and Wesleyan educational missionary, came to Bankura College in West Bengal in 1910 and remained there (with an interval for war service) until 1923. He first met Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan on the day when the news of the Nobel Prize came through in 1913. He subsequently set himself the difficult task of writing the first major English-language critical study of Tagore's poetry.
This work involved him in difficult relations with Tagore, and also with a wide circle of Calcutta intellectuals and scholars, including Brajendranath Seal, Ramananda Chatterji, and a great statistician and Tagore scholar - Prasanta Mahalanobis.
The present study by E.P. Thompson - the internationally famous historian and Peace Movement campaigner - draws upon the extensive correspondence and manuscripts in the Thompson Collection, and throws light on unfamiliar (sometimes entertaining, sometimes painful) aspects of an interface between Bengali and British culture. In an important appendix another scholar, Dr Uma Das Gupta, edits a hitherto unknown notebook of Thompson's conversations with Tagore.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
"Alien Homage": Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore
April 15, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0195647467 9780195647464
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
"Alien homage": Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore
1993, Oxford University Press
in English
0195630114 9780195630114
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 30, 2008
- 6 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
November 4, 2011 | Edited by WorkBot | add editions to new work |
August 12, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
April 16, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
April 30, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |