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This paper intends to study how, interlinking the influence of indigenous tradition along with his exposure to the Western ideas, Tagore has travelled through his ever-changing notion of nationalism and modernity to have finally arrived at a poetics that makes him at once a Bengali poet and a poet of the world. Prof Alam finally shows how Tagore in his refuting of the Nation centrism creates a unique idiom for his art—personal, national and beyond—that is modern but not a copycat of those being produced by Western modernism.
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See head note to ‘Modern Poetry’ on p. 401 Das and Chaudhuri (2001).
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Alam, F. (2017). Rabindranath Tagore at the Intersection of Nationalism and Modernity. In: Tuteja, K., Chakraborty, K. (eds) Tagore and Nationalism. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3696-2_9
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