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Who wrote the 1912 introduction to Tagore's English Gitanjali?
AT. S. Eliot
BW. B. Yeats
CEzra Pound
DVirginia Woolf
Answer & Solution
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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