A tale of two poets
In Tagore’s Gora , by contrast, the eponymous hero grows to adulthood under the impression that he is a pure Bengali Hindu. Despite the hint contained in his pet-name, which means “whitey”, he is a staunch nationalist with a fierce attachment to his supposed cultural traditions.
Already infatuated with eastern mysticism, Yeats became besotted with Tagore’s work, writing: “I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses or in restaurants.” In later years, he went somewhat out of fashion in Europe, to the extent that Graham Greene once questioned if “anyone but Mr Yeats can still take his poems very seriously”.
That phrase has recently taken on a different quality in Ireland, at least. It had escaped me until I jogged past it earlier this year that Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green now has a bust of Tagore, installed in 2011 as a gift from the Indian government. When the Tagore sculpture appeared in Dublin, the Bulbulias decided that one of his former Irish friend and collaborator should go the opposite direction. This was duly commissioned from sculptor Rory Breslin and paid for by a Bulbulia family bequest.
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