Rabindrakabye Oitijhya O Adhunikata by Subhash Chandra Bandyopadhyay [Hardcover]

From a very young age, the poet was well-educated in the Vedas, Upanishads, and various Sanskrit courses, as well as Western poetry and stories, which made him a follower of tradition. The Tagore household was the center of a cultural renaissance in Bengal, marking the beginning of modernity. Through traditional thought and a refined cultural environment, Rabindranath truly flourished. He was a successful creative poet who skillfully combined two streams of tradition—folk or oral tradition and classical or written tradition. He applied new styles and themes in his poetry that were relevant to the times, achieving a perfect blend of tradition and modernity. This book attempts to show how active the combination of tradition and modernity was in Rabindranath's poetry.