Excerpt from Rabindranath Tagore, the Man and His Poetry 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.