60 | Essays and Criticism

  • Structure

    Poquette has a bachelor’s degree in English and specializes in writing about literature. In the following essay, Poquette discusses the structure that Tagore uses in his poem.

  • Poetic Mastery

    In the following essay, Singh discusses Tagore’s international literary and social influence, explaining how the poetic mastery of Tagore’s Song Offerings, in which “60” appears, won the praise of poets like W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound.

  • Spirituality Of Consciousness

    In the following essay, Mirza and Mirza discuss the spirituality of consciousness in Tagore’s poetry as the poet advanced through romantic, mystic, and realist phases.

  • Review of the Poetry and Short Stories of Tagore

    In this excerpt, Thompson gives a sometimes mixed, but overall positive, review of the poetry and short stories of Tagore.

  • Favorable Review of Tagore's Poetry

    In this essay, Pound gives a favorable overview of the poems of Tagore.