Rabindranath and Rothenstein

By this time Rothenstein made three copies of the "Gitanjali" of Rabindranath and sent them to 1. Yeats, 2. Andrew Cecil Bradley (1851-1935), Professor of poetry in Oxford University,  and 3.Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832-1916), a famous monotheistic writer.  Rothenstein wrote, "I wrote to Yeats, who failed to reply;but when I wrote again he asked me to send him the poems, and when he had read them his enthusiasm equalled mine. Yeats expressed his excitement and described it in the introduction of "Gitanjali."  "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses and in restaurants  and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me."    

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist (playwright). Some think he was the greatest poet of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. The works of William Butler Yeats form a bridge between the romantic poetry of the nineteenth century and the hard clear language of modern poetry.
Andrew Cecil Bradley (March 26, 1851 – September 2, 1935) was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare.

The outcome of his five years as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University were A. C. Bradley’s two major works, Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), and Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909). All of his published work was delivered earlier as lectures. Bradley's pedagogical manner and his self-confidence made him a real guide for many students to the meaning of Shakespeare. His influence on Shakespearean criticism was so great that the following anonymous poem appeared
Brooke at­tend­ed Trin­i­ty Coll­ege in Dub­lin, Ire­land (BA 1856, MA 1858). He won the Downes Prize, and the Vice Chan­cel­lor’s prize for Eng­lish verse. He took Ho­ly Or­ders, and be­came cur­ate of St. Mat­thew’s, Mar­y­le­bone, 1857-59; Ken­sing­ton, 1860-63; Chap­lain to the Brit­ish Em­bas­sy in Ber­lin, 1863-65; Min­is­ter of St. James Chap­el, York Street, Lon­don, 1866-75; and of Bed­ford Chap­el, 1876. He was al­so ap­point­ed as Chap­lain in Or­din­ary to the Queen in 1872. His works in­clude