Creative Unity

Author: Rabindranath TagorePublisher: RupaYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 206ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171676758 DescriptionThis volume contains some of Tagore's occasional essays and lectures delivered abroad, and reveal his fundamental tenets of art and aesthetics, of life and religion and of 'religion of the poet'.Creative Unity (1922) contains some of Tagore's occasional essays and lectures delivered abroad. Published after his third visit to America (1920-21), these essays reveal his fundamental tenets of art and aesthetics, of life and religion and of 'the religion of the poet.' Their main thesis is that the Infinite. One is mysteriously united with the Self. This One in the Self is creative. Tagore thinks by uniting the spirituality of the East with the science of the West the great Spirituality of man will be achieved. The book also has three essays enumerating his ideas on Nationalism, Women and Education.ContentsIntroductionThe Poet's ReligionThe Creative IdealThe Re