Contents: Preface. 1. A Panoramic view of Rabindranath Tagore's poems and his poetic sensibility/S.K. Paul. 2. Symbolism in Tagore's Gitanjali/Amar Nath Prasad. 3. Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali a critical overview of his poetic achievements/S.K. Paul. 4. Tagore's fruit gathering: a work of symbolic exuberances/Amar Nath Prasad. 5. Rabindranath Tagore's prose and drama: an evaluation of his literary contribution to South-Asian studies/S.K. Paul. 6. Tagore's Chitra: a mirror of music and metaphoric structure/Amar Nath Prasad. 7. An essay on the personality and literary altitude of Rabindranath Tagore: an overview of his non-fictional prose/S.K. Paul. Index.

"Recritiquing Rabindranath Tagore is a modest attempt to critically dive deep into the vast ocean of the works of Rabindranath Tagore and to churn out some pearls and gems hidden beneath the surface. Both the authors of this book have tried their best to judge and evaluate the major works of Tagore on the basis of the country's age-old Indian aesthetics. They deal with the thematic and stylistic aspects of Tagore's works in modern perspectives. The works discussed here are "Gitanjali", "Fruit Gathering", "Chitra", Tagore's non-fictional works, an overview of his poems and poetic achievements, his literary contribution to South Asian studies and some other interesting and untouched shades of Tagore's poems and plays.

The book, it is hoped, will certainly get a warm reception in the hands of the students, teachers and research scholars who want to study Tagore in the light of new perspective." (jacket)