@article{Radice, SOAS, University of London, UK_2010, title={Never Not an Educator: Tagore as a Poet-Teacher}, volume={4}, url={https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/517}, DOI={10.31436/asiatic.v4i1.517}, abstractNote={Tagore was an educator in everything he wrote and did. He was also always a poet, in his novels and plays as well as his poetry. The dénouement of his novel <em>Yogāyog</em> can be faulted on novelistic grounds, but is understandable if one relates it to his sometimes oppressive sense of his own destiny. His play <em>Muktadhārā</em> shows that he was well aware of the perils of charisma and <em>gurugiri</em>. His educational experiment at Santiniketan, which rested so heavily on his own charisma, may therefore have had some inherent dangers. Visva-Bharati’s chequered history may in time lead one to ask whether there were problems with the Poet’s dream itself.}, number={1}, journal={Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature}, author={Radice, SOAS, University of London, UK, William}, year={2010}, month={Jun.}, pages={41–51} }