Excerpt from Rabindranath Tagore: A Biographical Study

"Nature shut her hands and laughingly asked every day, 'What have I got inside?' and nothing seemed impossible."

These words from Rabindranath Tagore's autobiography, referring to the eager mornings of his early boyhood, may serve as key to the following account, which attempts to relate him both to the old tradition in India and to the new day anticipated in his writings. Such as they are, the chapters that succeed must be left now to answer for themselves; but at the last moment I am tempted to add two or three passages.

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