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About The Book: Rabindranath is our greatest poet and prose-writer. Son of a Maharshi (a great seer), and himself a seer, he belongs to a family the most gifted in Bengal in the realms of religion, philosophy, literature, and art. There is no department of Bengali literature that he has touched which he has not adorned, elevated, filled with inspiraion, or lighted up by the lustre of his genius. The music of his verse and prose that fills the outer ear is but an echo of the inner harmony of humanity and the universe which exists at the heart of things, and which he has caught and made manifest to us by his writings. Two main influences affected Rabindranath in boyhood, that of his father and that of Vaishnava poetry. About The Author: George Leslie Calderon (2 December 1868 – 4 June 1915) was an English writer. He was one of the most knowledgeable Englishmen of his generation about Russian life and literature. Calderon was born in St John's Wood, the fifth son of the Victorian painter Philip Hermogenes Calderon, and educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford, before training as a barrister. From 1895 to 1897 he worked in Russia as a teacher, journalist and scholar, then returned to England, learned several other Slavonic languages and in 1900 became an assistant librarian at the British Museum. During this time he pursued his research into Slavonic folklore, married, and published many stories, articles and translations. In 1903, Calderon left the British Museum to become a full-time writer. In 1906 he lived for two months on Tahiti. On his return, he regularly reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement.