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Who wrote the 1912 introduction to Tagore's English Gitanjali?Read the answer and worked solution →Yeats praises Gitanjali primarily for its:Read the answer and worked solution →Yeats's role in early-20th-century literature can best be described as:Read the answer and worked solution →Yeats's introduction frames Tagore's poetry as accessible without:Read the answer and worked solution →Yeats described the universal appeal of Gitanjali in his role as:Read the answer and worked solution →Yeats wrote which 1912 introduction?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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Yeats praises Gitanjali primarily for its:

  1. Rigid metrical discipline
  2. Accessibility and universal appeal
  3. Political polemic
  4. Anti-religious satire
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Correct answer: B. Accessibility and universal appeal

1. The introduction emphasises immediacy of feeling and cross-cultural reach. 2. Yeats sees Tagore's mysticism as recovering a lost European simplicity. 3. The pitch frames Tagore as both ancient and timely. _Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (with W.B. Yeats's 1912 Introduction) — "praises the work's accessibility and universal appeal"_

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Yeats's role in early-20th-century literature can best be described as:

  1. Bridge between late Romanticism and Modernism
  2. Pure Restoration playwright
  3. Augustan satirist
  4. Victorian novelist
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Correct answer: A. Bridge between late Romanticism and Modernism

1. Yeats's career spans the 1880s through the 1930s. 2. He moves from Celtic-Romantic verse to spare, modernist diction. 3. His introduction to Gitanjali (1912) places him as a tastemaker between eras. _Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (with W.B. Yeats's 1912 Introduction) — "W.B. Yeats' introduction"_

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