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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 29

Comparative and World Literatures in English Translation · Cross-cultural exchanges and their impact on literary traditions · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Who wrote the introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali?

  1. T. S. Eliot
  2. Ezra Pound
  3. W. H. Auden
  4. W. B. Yeats

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Correct answer: (D) W. B. Yeats

Explanation

W. B. Yeats wrote the introduction to the English Gitanjali (1912), which helped Tagore win the Nobel Prize.