Rabindranath Tagore Nationalism Lviv 1921 first edition Bookstore "Novelties" Translated by Seweryn Zausmer 72s. o. contemporary with preserved 1 page o. original booklet p. bdb- small stain and hole on cover and pages following For. ca: 21x15 cm Rabindranath Tagore - Indian poet, novelist, philosopher, composer, painter, educator, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913), the first for an Indian as well as for an Asian. (...) He declared himself an extreme pacifist and opponent of violence in all its forms, and had no interest in politics as such. He received a British knighthood in 1915, but rejected it four years later. |