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Songs of Kabir / One Hundred Poems of Kabir (Tagore's version)

Songs of Kabir / One Hundred Poems of Kabir (versión de Tagore)

Kabir y Ravidas
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The book that made Kabir known in the West: a hundred poems in poetic prose about the God within man, the true master, the unstruck music (*anahad*), the inadequacy of words and the unity of all things. With Evelyn Underhill's introduction, which recounted the legends as facts, it was endlessly reprinted, retranslated into Spanish (Joaquín V. González, 1918), French (Henriette Mirabaud-Thorens and, in versions unpublished until 2012, André Gide) and many other languages, and it inspired Robert Bly's paraphrases. It is literature in its own right, but only a small part of it can be read as Kabir.

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Authorship note

A selection of a hundred poems translated into English by Rabindranath Tagore with Evelyn Underhill from Kshitimohan Sen's Hindi-Bengali collection (1910–1911), gathered from books and wandering singers, and from an unpublished translation by Ajit Kumar Chakravarty. Its authenticity is much disputed: V. C. Mishra (1987) accepts as Kabir's only poems 15, 32, 34, 35, 69 and 94; the rest belongs to later bhakti poetry by admirers, and the translation projects early twentieth-century theology onto Kabir.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Kabir: Ecstatic Poems

    Beacon Press, 2004

    Translation: Robert Bly

    Reescritura en inglés contemporáneo de la versión de Tagore, según declara el propio Bly; ISBN no confirmado en catálogo.

  • Songs of Kabir

    Macmillan (Nueva York), 1915

    Translation: Rabindranath Tagore (con Evelyn Underhill)

    En Londres, *One Hundred Poems of Kabir* (India Society). Dominio público (Project Gutenberg 6519).

Español

  • Cien poemas de Kabir

    Atenea, 1918

    Translation: Joaquín V. González

    Traducción de la versión inglesa de Tagore; el traductor murió en 1923.

Français

  • La flûte de l'infini

    Gallimard, 2012

    Translation: André Gide y Henriette Mirabaud-Thorens

    ISBN 9782070444687

    Traducciones inéditas de Gide a partir de Tagore y recopilación íntegra de los poemas en versión de Mirabaud-Thorens; ed. de Jean-Claude Perrier.

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Sources

  • «Songs of Kabir». Wikipedia en inglés (fuentes de Tagore: colección de Kshitimohan Sen y traducción inédita de Ajit Kumar Chakravarty; autenticidad).

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