Gitanjali - wikipedia Gitanjali This article is about the collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. For other uses, see Geetanjali ( disambiguation ). Gitanjali, Song Offerings Gitanjali title page Author Rabindranath Tagore W.B. Yeats ( introduction ) Original title গীতাঞ্জলি Country British Raj Language Bengali, English Subject Devotion to God Genre Poem Publisher Macmillan and Company Publication date 1910 Published in English 1912 Pages 104 Gitanjali ( Bengali : গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ' ' Song offering ' ' ) is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the book. And is part of the Collection from the UNESCO of Representative Works. History The original Bengali collection of 156 / 157 poems was published on August 14, 1910. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore 's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It contained translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems which were from his drama Achalayatan and eight other books of poetry -- mainly Gitimalya ( 17 poems ), Naivedya ( 15 poems ) and Kheya ( 11 poems ). The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance fusing two separate poems ( song 95, which unifies songs 89, 90 of Naivedya ). Tagore undertook the translations prior to a visit to England in 1912, where the poems were extremely well received. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English Gitanjali. The English Gitanjali became popular in the West, and was widely translated. The word gitanjali is composed from `` geet '', song, and `` anjali '', offering, and thus means -- `` An offering of songs '' ; but the word for offering, anjali, has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as `` prayer offering of song ''. William Butler Yeats wrote the introduction to the first edition of Gitanjali. References Jump up ^ Ghosal, Sukriti. `` The Language of Gitanjali : the Paradoxical Matrix '' ( PDF ). The Criterion : An International Journal in English. Retrieved 14 August 2012. Jump up ^ books.google.de, Sukriti. `` Gitanjali : Song Offerings ''. Retrieved 8 April 2017. ^ Jump up to : Gitanjali : Selected Poems ( 2010 - 07 - 30 ). `` Gitanjali : Selected Poems ''. School of Wisdom. Archived from the original on 2012 - 07 - 21. Retrieved 2012 - 07 - 11. Jump up ^ `` Yeats ' introduction to Tagore 's Gitanji ''. The Fortnightly Review. 2013 - 05 - 27. Retrieved 2017 - 12 - 21. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gitanjali. Wikisource has original text related to this article : Gitanjali Bengali Wikisource has original text related to this article : গীতাঞ্জলি Gitanjali ( Song Offerings ) Gitanjali Gitanjali public domain audiobook at LibriVox Rabindranath Tagore Life Early life Middle years Political views Chronology Timeline List of works Works Novels Nastanirh ( 1901 ) Chokher Bali ( 1902 - 1903 ) Noukadubi ( 1906 ) Gora ( 1909 ) Ghare Baire ( 1916 ) Chaturanga ( 1916 ) Jogajog ( 1929 ) Shesher Kabita ( 1929 ) Stories Hungry Stones Kabuliwala List of stories Poetry Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali ( 1884 ) Gitanjali ( 1910 ) Poems and songs Rabindra Sangeet Gitabitan `` Amar Sonar Bangla '' `` Birpurush '' `` Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo '' `` Ekla Chalo Re '' `` Jana Gana Mana '' `` Vocation '' Plays Valmiki - Pratibha ( 1888 ) Raja ( 1910 ) The Post Office ( 1912 ) Chitra ( 1913 ) Dance dramas Rabindra Nritya Natya Lectures The Religion of Man Essays The Cult of the Charkha Translations Songs of Kabir Film Natir Puja ( 1932 film ) Kshudhita Pashan Collections The Essential Tagore Adaptations Kabuliwala Dak Ghar Charulata Ghare Baire Rabindranath Tagore Teen Kanya Jogajog Stories by Rabindranath Tagore Robi Thakurer Golpo Places Jorasanko Thakur Bari Santiniketan Shahzadpur Shilaidaha Patisar Rabindra Bharati University Rabindra Sadan Rabindra Tirtha Visva - Bharati University Tagore museums Family Tagore family Dwarkanath Ramanath Debendranath Related Adi Brahmo Samaj Rabindra Jayanti The Last Harvest : Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore ( exhibition book ) Rabindra Chitravali ( book ). Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gitanjali&oldid=852950315 '' Categories : Bengali - language literature Bengali poetry Poetry collections by Rabindranath Tagore 1910 poems 1912 poems Hidden categories : Articles containing Bengali - language text Articles with LibriVox links Talk About Wikipedia অসমীয়া বাংলা Deutsch فارسی ગુજરાતી हिन्दी Bahasa Indonesia עברית ಕನ್ನಡ മലയാളം မြန်မာဘာသာ नेपाली नेपाल भाषा ਪੰਜਾਬੀ پنجابی Русский Simple English தமிழ் తెలుగు ไทย اردو Tiếng Việt 13 more Edit links This page was last edited on 1 August 2018, at 12 : 51 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote the preface to the english translation of gitanjali
Answer: William Butler Yeats