泰戈尔，印度著名诗人、作家、社会活动家。1913年，泰戈尔凭借宗教抒情诗《吉檀迦利》获得诺贝尔文学奖，他也是第一位获此奖的亚洲人。其诗集有《吉檀迦利》《飞鸟集》《新月集》《园丁集》等。
本书集结了泰戈尔最有影响的两部诗集《飞鸟集》和《新月集》。《飞鸟集》是我国翻译介绍最早的泰戈尔诗集。这部诗集对我国新文学运动中的诗歌发展颇有影响。中国新文学运动中最早的女诗人冰心就受到了这部诗集的影响。她的《繁星》《春水》就是仿效《飞鸟集》写成的。
《新月集》是泰戈尔创作的以儿童生活和情趣为主旨的英文散文诗集，共收入诗歌40首。诗人生动描绘了儿童们的游戏，巧妙地表现了孩子们的心理，以及他们活泼的想象。它的特殊的、隽永的艺术魅力，把我们带到了一个纯洁的儿童世界，勾起了我们对于童年生活的美好回忆。
本书选择了文学名家郑振铎的译本，语言清丽脱俗，极富感情色彩。书中还给诗歌配上了精美的插图，希望能更好地帮助青少年朋友理解。
(Tagore is the famous Indian poet, writer and social activist. In 1913, Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature with the religious lyrics Gitanjali. He is also the first Asian winning this award. His poems includes Gitanjali, Stray Birds, The Crescent Moon and The Gardener, etc.
This book assembled Tagore's two most influential poetry anthology Stray Birds, and The Crescent Moon. Stray Birds was the earliest Tagore's poetry translation in China. This poem has great influence to our country's new literature movement development. The earliest Chinese female poet of new literature movement Bing Xin was influenced by the poems. Her A Maze of Stars and Spring Water are written by following example of Stray Birds.
The Crescent Moon is written by Tagore and is the English prose poetry with the purport of children's lives and interest. It includes 40 poems. The poet vividly depicts the children's games, and skillfully shows the children's psychology and their lively imagination. Its special and meaningful artistic charm bring us to a pure child world and remind us of happy memories of the childhood.
This book chooses the translation of Zheng Zhenduo, a literary master. Its language is elegant, beautiful and free from vulgarity. It has extremely rich emotional color. With its beautiful illustrations, this book hopes to help young people to understand better.
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