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''Song Offerings'' is a volume of lyrics by Bengali poet Rabindranath Thakur ((ベンガル語:রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর)), rendered into English by the poet himself, for which he was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.〔(Presentation Speech by the Nobel Committee )〕 ==Contents== ''Song Offerings'' is often identified as the English rendering of Gitanjali ((ベンガル語:গীতাঞ্জলি)), a volume of poetry by poet Rabindranath Thakur composed between 1904 and 1910 and published in 1910. However, in fact, ''Song Offerings'' anthologizes English translation of poems from ten previously published volumes of Tagore poetry. The ten volumes, and the number of poems selected from each, are as follows:〔(Rabindranath in English - Response of the West )〕 * Gitanjali - 51 poems (out of 157 poems in Gitanjali) * Geetmalya - 17 poems * Naibadya - 16 poems * Kheya - 11 poems * Shishu - 3 poems * Chaitali - 1 poems * Smaran - 1 poems * Kalpana - 1 poems * Utsarga - 1 poems * Acholayatan - 1 poems ''Song Offerings'' is a collection of devotional songs to the supreme. The deep-rooted spiritual essence of the volume is brought out from the following extract : My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. (Poem 28, ''Song Offering'') 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Song Offering」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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