Abstract
ZRA POUND met the Indian poet Rabindranath and heard ihis poetry for the first time at a Tagore Evening which William Rothenstein, painter, founder of the India Society, and Tagore's London host, gave for his distinguished guest at his home in Hampstead Heath on the evening of July 7, I912.1 At Rothenstein's, W. B. Yeats read aloud several poems that had translated into English from his Bengali works shortly before he left India and while he was en route to London in the spring of I9I2. Pound, like many of the other guests gathered at Rothenstein's that evening,2 was deeply moved by the poetry. In an essay published several months later he compared his response to with Boccaccio's excitement in discovering the Greeks and Dante:
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