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This Dog - Rabindranath Tagore - Poetry  About the Author           Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is honored by titles such as Gurudev, Kabigum, and Biswakabi. He was a person of wide learn- ing and knowledge who had expertise in many fields like music, literature, painting, philosophy, and religion. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his renowned collection of poems, Gitanjali. Tagore began writing poetry when he was 8 years old and published his first collection of poems at the age of 16. There are about 50 collections of poems written by him in Bengali along with numerous novels, short stories, and philosophical writings. Many of these have been translated into English by Tagore himself. He was invited by the Western nations for lectures on topics related to Art, Philosophy, and Religion. He was humanist and supported independence from Britain.                He introduced new styles of prose and verse and promoted the us

A Poison Tree - William Blake About the Author  William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) is regarded as the most original of the English Romantic poets. Unfortunately, he was mostly neglected and was even thought of as a mad person in his times. He was an engraver, artist, poet, and visionary. He wrote wonderful lyrics in his collections entitled Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience published in 1794. He also painted scenes from the works of Milton, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. His works are classed as ' prophetic books ' such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion ( 1793 ), The First Book of Urizen ( 1794 ), Milton ( 1810 ), and Jerusalem ( 1812 ) are deeply philosophical, difficult and long series of poems. He engraved, colored, printed, stitched, and sold these words, with the help of his wife, Catherine. Some of his highly appreciated poems are " The Lamb " - " The T ger " and " London ", The " Jerusalem &q

A Living God -Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo)  About the Author Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo)                     Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known by his Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was born on the Greek island of Levkas on June 27. He was an international writer, translator, and journalist proficient in English, Greek, and Japanese languages. His father was an Irish serving as an officer-surgeon in the British army and his mother was a Greek. Hearn went to Ireland, England for education and then immigrated to the United States to work as a journalist. While working for the Harper's Magazine, Hearn was sent first to French West Indies in 1887 and then to Japan in 1890. He resigned from his job and became a Japanese citizen adopting the name, Koizumi Yakumo.             From 1896 to 1903, he worked as a professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo. He not only studied the Japanese cultu