Rabindranath Tagore

KKD incorporated into her Bengali novel Rabindranath o Victoria Ocampor Sandhaney (In Search of Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo) her scholarly research on the relationship between these two Argentinian writers.

KKD published In Your Blossoming Flower-Garden, a study of the correspondence of Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo (who as well as a writer was reputedly Tagore's muse).

KKD 's given name, the name of a flower, was taken from the poetry of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore , who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

In the mid-1980s, KKD travelled to Buenos Aires, where she did research on the lives of Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo (Tagore's muse and a writer in her own right). New Delhi's Indian Council for Cultural Relations

KKD began translating from Bengali to English in the 1960s, while she was still studying at Oxford . In 1964 her first translation was published in Poetry Ireland: a poem by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore

The contents of this volume span the years 1959-1968. While most consist of literary criticism, some explore social and cultural issues. The volume begins with essays on Rabindranath Tagore and Shakespeare , and a review...

KKD provides almost equally detailed discussion of Tagore : the way he became a cultural icon for the Bengali people, his extensive writings in many genres, his own translations of them into...

In 1997 KKD published an interdisciplinary study on Rabindranath Tagore 's protanopic vision and his use of colour in his writings and art. She co-wrote this study with her husband, Robert Dyson , as well...

KKD feels strongly that the difficulty she has faced in attracting an English-speaking audience and commanding the attention of English-speaking critics is related to her ethnicity and bilingualism. Most of the slender English criticism of...

Her other scholarly introductions include one for Rabindranath Tagore 's Selected Short Stories in a new translation in 1991, and E. M. Forster 's previously unpublished Arctic Summer, 2003.

Among friends entertained regularly or occasionally at Conduit Head were William Rothenstein , Eric Gill , Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson , Bertrand Russell , and Rabindranath Tagore .

By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry , Colette , Jean Cocteau , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Rabindranath Tagore , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott

Less intimate than Souvenirs indiscrets, this volume includes sketches of Gertrude Stein , Jean Cocteau , Gide , D'Annunzio , and Rabindranath Tagore . One piece, written in response to Ramon Gomez de la Serna