TY - BOOK AU - Thompson,Edward John TI - Rabindranath Tagore: poet & dramatist SN - (hardback) U1 - 891.4414 THO 23 PY - 1926/// CY - London PB - Oxford University Press KW - Tagore, Rabindranath, N1 - Book 1. 1861-1886. Early life and poetry -- Book 2. 1887-1897. The Shileida and Sādhana period -- Book 3. 1898-1905. Unrest and change -- Book 4. 1909-1919. The Gitānjali period -- Book 5. 1919-1941. Internationalism N2 - First published in 1926, then republished with extensive revisions in 1948, this remains one of the best introductions to Tagore's work. Thompson here attempts to undermine the Orientalist mythmaking about Tagore that began with Yeats. His book offers an informed discussion as well as an attractive display of Tagore's work ER -