In this essay, Pound gives a favorable overview of the poems of Tagore.
The appearance of "The Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" is, to my mind, very important. The movement of his prose may escape you if you read it only from print, but read it aloud, a little tentatively, and the delicacy of its rhythm is at once apparent. I think this good fortune is unconscious. I do not think it is an accident. It is the sort of prose rhythm a man would use after years of word arranging. He would shun cacophony almost unwittingly.
The next easiest things to note are the occasional brilliant phrases, now like some pure Hellenic, in "Morning with the golden basket in her right hand," now like the last sophistication of De Gourmont or Baudelaire.
.....
This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 651 words. This
study guide contains 11,623 words (approx. 39 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our 60 Access Pass.
