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Tagore, Rabindranath

(Calcutta 1861-1941 Calcutta) : Bengalischer Schriftsteller

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History : China - Asia / Index of Names : Others

Chronology Entries (4)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1913 Yeats, W.B. Introduction. Tagore, Rabindranath. Gitanjali : song offerings. By Rabindranath Tagore. A collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali ; with an introduction by W.B. Yeats. (London : Macmillan, 1913). http://terebess.hu/english/tagore.html.
"I said, 'In the East you know how to keep a family illustrious. The other day the curator of a museum pointed out to me a little dark-skinned man who was arranging their Chinese prints and said, 'That is the hereditary connoisseur of the Mikado, he is the fourteenth of his family to hold the post'… Flowers and rivers, the blowing of conch shells, the heavy rain of the Indian July, or the moods of that heart in union or in separation; and a man sitting in a boat upon a river playing lute, like one of those figures full of mysterious meaning in a Chinese picture, is God Himself…"
  • Person: Yeats, William Butler
2 1932 Guo, Moruo. Chuang zao shi nian [ID D11361].
"Ich habe unter Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Einfluss begonnen, Versdramen zu schreiben. Nachdem ich den ersten Teil des Faust übersetzt habe, ging ich anschliessend daran, Tang di zhi hua (Geschwister Nie Ying und Nie Zheng) zu schaffen... Dann noch Die Wiedergeburt der Göttinnen, Xianglei und Die zwei Prinzen des Herrn Guzu. Alle diese Stücke sind unter Goethes Einfluss gestanden."
"During the first period I followed Tagore. This was before the May Fourth Movement, and I strove for brevity and tranquility in my poetry, with rather little success. During the second period I followed Whitman. This was during the high tide of the May Fourth Movement, and I strove to make my poems vigorous and robust. This must be counted my most memorable period. During the third period I followed Goethe, the passion of the second period was lost and I became one who played the game of versification. It was under the impact of Goethe that I began to write poetic dramas."
Er schreibt über Baruch Spinoza, dass er Ethica, Tractatus theologico-politicus und Tractatus de intellectus emendatione gelesen hat.
He admired most Die Wandlung by Ernst Toller and Die Bürger von Calais by Georg Kaiser and he states that in reading Spinoza and Goethe he discoverd for himelf 'pantheist' traditions in ancient Chinese philosophy of Zhuangzi.
  • Document: Gálik, Marián. Two modern Chinese philosophers on Spinoza. In : Orienx extremus ; vol. 22, no 1 (1975). (SpiB22, Publication)
  • Document: Gálik, Marián. Kuo Mo-jo's "The goddesses" : creative confrontation with Tagore, Whitman and Goethe. In : Gálik, Marián. Milestones in Sino-Western literary confrontation, 1898-1979. – Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1986. (Asiatische Forschungen ; Bd. 98). [Guo Moruo]. (WhiW56, Publication)
  • Document: Yang, Wuneng. Goethe in China (1889-1999). (Frankfurt a.M. : P. Lang, 2000). S. 93. (YanW1, Publication)
  • Person: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
  • Person: Guo, Moruo
  • Person: Spinoza, Baruch de
  • Person: Whitman, Walt
3 1936 Guo Moruo shi zuo tan. [Guo Moruo on poetic creation]. (1936). 郭沫若詩作談
Guo admitted the impact of Heinrich Heine which allegedly temporally followed that of Tagore, further the impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley who allegedly temporally followed that of Walt Whitman.
  • Document: Gálik, Marián. Kuo Mo-jo's "The goddesses" : creative confrontation with Tagore, Whitman and Goethe. In : Gálik, Marián. Milestones in Sino-Western literary confrontation, 1898-1979. – Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1986. (Asiatische Forschungen ; Bd. 98). [Guo Moruo]. (WhiW56, Publication)
  • Person: Guo, Moruo
  • Person: Heine, Heinrich
  • Person: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  • Person: Whitman, Walt
4 1959 Guo Moruo. Tong zhi da qing nian wen. In : Wen xue zhi shi ; May (1959). [Reply to some young people].
"At that time, I was not quite clear about the nature of the universe and the life, and believed in pantheism for a certain period of time. I was fond of Tagore, and Goethe as well. As a result, I came into touch with the philosophy of pantheism."
同志答青年問

Bibliography (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1994 [Hardy, Thomas]. Debo jia de Taisi. Hadai zhu ; Liu Qingbang suo xie. (Beijing : Hua xia chu ban she, 1994). (Wai guo chang pian xiao shuo ming zhu jing cui). Übersetzung von Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. (London : James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891).
德伯家的苔丝
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[Voynich, Ethel Lilian]. Niu Meng. Funiqi zhu ; Shi Tiesheng suo xie. Übersetzung von Übersetzung von Voynich, E.L. The gadfly. (London : Heinemann, 1897). 牛虻
[Tagore, Rabindranath]. Chen chuan. Taige'er zhu ; Xiao Fuxing suo xie. Übersetzung von Tagore, Rabindranath. Naukadubi. (Kalikata : Bi'svabarati Granthanabibhaga, 1906). = The wreck. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1921). 沉船
[Rolland, Romain]. Yuehan Kelisiduofu. Luoman Luolan zhu ; Wang Jinling suo xie. Übersetzung von Rolland, Romain. Jean-Christophe. Vol. 1-10. (Paris : Ollendorff, 1906-1913). 約翰克利斯朶夫 		Publication / Hardy24

Secondary Literature (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1970 Hay, Stephen N. Asian ideas of East and West : Tagore and his critics in Japan, China, and India. (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1970). (Harvard East Asian series). [Rabindranath Tagore]. Publication / HayS1
2 1986 Gálik, Marián. Kuo Mo-jo's "The goddesses" : creative confrontation with Tagore, Whitman and Goethe. In : Gálik, Marián. Milestones in Sino-Western literary confrontation, 1898-1979. – Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1986. (Asiatische Forschungen ; Bd. 98). [Guo Moruo]. Publication / WhiW56
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
  • Person: Guo, Moruo
  • Person: Gálik, Marián
  • Person: Whitman, Walt