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Rabindranath Tagore was an eminent poet and writer of India, who won Nobel Prize for Literature. Who was his English poet-friend who introduced him to the West?
Rabindranath Tagore was an eminent poet and writer of India, who won Nobel Prize for Literature. Who was his English poet-friend who introduced him to the West?
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The correct option is A W.B. Yeats
- William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore have a very strong historical and biographical relationship revolving around the fact that Tagore's first champion in the west, the person most responsible for his initial success outside of India, was Yeats.
- After reading some of Tagore's self-translated poems, Yeats was impressed and got Tagore's collections published and spread the word about him in the literary circles in London.
- Most importantly, Yeats wrote the introduction to Tagore's Gitanjali, which first appeared in 1913.
- William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore have a very strong historical and biographical relationship revolving around the fact that Tagore's first champion in the west, the person most responsible for his initial success outside of India, was Yeats.
- After reading some of Tagore's self-translated poems, Yeats was impressed and got Tagore's collections published and spread the word about him in the literary circles in London.
- Most importantly, Yeats wrote the introduction to Tagore's Gitanjali, which first appeared in 1913.
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