A difficult friendship : letters of Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore, 1913-1940 / edited by Uma Das Gupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Edward John, 1886-1946.

Contributor:

Dasgupta, Uma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thompson, Edward John, 1886-1946--Correspondence.

Thompson, Edward John.

Thompson, Edward John, 1886-1946.

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941--Correspondence.

Tagore, Rabindranath.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

viii, 243 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Edward Thompson, an English poet and Wesleyan missionary--and, later, father of the eminent historian E. P. Thompson--first met Rabindranath Tagore on the day the poet learned he had won the Nobel Prize in 1913. He became closely involved with him and his circle during the preparation of Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Dramatist (OUP 1992), the first major English-language study of his writings. This volume of letters, ranging from 1913 until 1940, the year before Tagore's death, sheds new light on this remarkable and stormy friendship, and offers fresh insights into Anglo-Indian relations in the first quarter of the last century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-231) and index.

ISBN:

0195663128

OCLC:

53205782