<P> The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance fusing two separate poems (song 95, which unifies songs 89, 90 of Naivedya). Tagore undertook the translations prior to a visit to England in 1912, where the poems were extremely well received . In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English Gitanjali . </P> <P> The English Gitanjali became popular in the West, and was widely translated . The word gitanjali is composed from "geet", song, and "anjali", offering, and thus means--"An offering of songs"; but the word for offering, anjali, has a strong devotional connotation, so the title may also be interpreted as "prayer offering of song". </P> <P> William Butler Yeats wrote the introduction to the first edition of Gitanjali . </P>

Who wrote the preface to the english translation of gitanjali