Rabindranath Tagore, the Man and His Poetry

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The fluent transcriptions of Oriental thought with which Edwin Arnold fed the desire for new and strange interpretations of Nature and life were comfortable adaptations Of Eastern ways of thought and Speech to Western habits and taste; they made things easy for those who hunger and thirst for local colour, but they brought neither aid nor comfort to those who wanted to understand the ideas behind Oriental imagery and art.