60 | Favorable Review of Tagore's Poetry
In this essay, Pound gives a favorable overview of the poems of Tagore.
The appearance of “The Poems of Rabindranath Tagore” is, to my mind, very important.
The movement of his prose may escape you if you read it only from print, but read it aloud, a little tentatively, and the delicacy of its rhythm is at once apparent. I think this good fortune is unconscious. I do not think it is an accident. It is the sort of prose rhythm a man would use after years of word arranging. He would shun kakophony almost unwittingly.
The next easiest things to note are the occasional brilliant phrases, now like some pure Hellenic, in “Morning with the...
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