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For all I know, so abundant and simple is this poetry, the new

renaissance has been born in your country and I shall never know

of it except by hearsay." He answered, "We have other poets, but

none that are his equal; we call this the epoch of Rabindranath.

No poet seems to me as famous in Europe as he is among us. He is

as great in music as in poetry, and his songs are sung from the

west of India into Burma wherever Bengali is spoken. He was

already famous at nineteen when he wrote his first novel; and

plays when he was but little older, are still played in Calcutta.

I so much admire the completeness of his life; when he was very

young he wrote much of natural objects, he would sit all day in

his garden; from his twenty-fifth year or so to his thirty-fifth

perhaps, when he had a great sorrow, he wrote the most beautiful

love poetry in our language," and then he said with deep emotion,

"words can never express what I owed at seventeen to his love

poetry.