The First Jasmines


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Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent. - Summary by Wikipedia (0 hr 22 min)

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The First Jasmines - Read by AJC 1:56 Read by Andrew Coleman
The First Jasmines - Read by ALP 1:25 Read by Algy Pug
The First Jasmines - Read by BK 1:35 Read by Bruce Kachuk
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The First Jasmines - Read by IK 1:33 Read by Ian King
The First Jasmines - Read by JM 1:21 Read by J. McDougall
The First Jasmines - Read by LAH 1:19 Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The First Jasmines - Read by LLW 1:52 Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
The First Jasmines - Read by MK 1:39 Read by Maria Kasper
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The First Jasmines - Read by PY 1:36 Read by Peter Yearsley
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