TY - JOUR AU - Radice, SOAS, University of London, UK, William PY - 2010/06/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Never Not an Educator: Tagore as a Poet-Teacher JF - Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature JA - AJELL VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Forum on Rabindranath Tagore, Asia’s First Nobel Laureate DO - 10.31436/asiatic.v4i1.517 UR - https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/517 SP - 41-51 AB - 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. ER -