Bird Collection (2023 Edition)

Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a masterpiece and is a world-renowned immortal classic. It is known as the "Lighthouse of Spiritual Life". Rabindranath Tagore's poems are filled with tranquility and solemn artistic conception, shining with the light of profound philosophy. They are thought-provoking and resonate strongly with readers. This classic work nourishes the spiritual world of a generation. ★A new and affectionate translation by "Father of Ballads" Hu Defu. Anyone who has a singer can see the heart of poetry. Mr. Hu Defu has profound musical attainments and has his own unique feelings and understanding of poetry. "The Birds" was a work published by Rabindranath Tagore when he was 52 years old. It is also one of his most outstanding and classic works. It is a collection of English aphorisms and poems, first published in 1916. The works in "The Birds" are divided into two parts: one part of the poems was translated by Tagore from his Bengali collection of aphoristic poems "The Broken Jade Collection" (1899), and the other part is the impromptu English poems written by the author when he visited Japan.