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Who wrote the 1912 introduction to Tagore's English Gitanjali?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who wrote the 1912 introduction to Tagore's English Gitanjali?

  1. T. S. Eliot
  2. W. B. Yeats
  3. Ezra Pound
  4. Virginia Woolf
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Correct answer: B. W. B. Yeats

1. The Macmillan English edition of Gitanjali (1912) opens with Yeats's introduction. 2. Yeats's endorsement made Tagore an international Modernist-era star. 3. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 partly on this back of attention. _Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (with W.B. Yeats's 1912 Introduction) — "W.B. Yeats' introduction praises the work's accessibility and universal appeal"_

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