Round 7: Tossup 16

This poet described a place where “[t]he infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless (15[1])water is boisterous.” In that poem by this poet, children “know not how to swim, they know (15[1])not how to cast nets” on the “seashore of endless worlds.” Part of a (15[1])collection by this poet opens “Where the mind is without fear” and ends (*) “my Father, let my country awake.” (10[1]-5[1])W. B. Yeats wrote the foreword to a 1910 collection by this author, which made him the first non-western author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a title translating to Song Offerings. For 10 points, the lyrics to “Jana Gana Mana,” India’s national anthem, were written by what Bengali poet of Gitanjali? ■END■ (10[1])

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