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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature.

In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernized Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures.His novels, stories, songs, dance dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, first of all, he was a poet.

Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works. Tagore's verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

Photo credit: Public property. Photo of Rabindranath Tagore was published in 1914 in Sweden in Les Prix Nobel 1913.
years of life: 7 May 1861 7 August 1941

Quotes

andy Shawhas quoted2 years ago
At a time, when my unpopularity with a part of my readers had reached the nadir of its glory, and my name had become the central orb of the journals, to be attended through space with a perpetual rotation of revilement, I felt the necessity to retire to some quiet place and endeavour to forget my own existence
Text nageriehas quoted9 months ago
Do you know, Sister Rani," said Amulya, "I have had a quarrel with Sandip Babu over that six thousand rupees he took from you? I cannot tell you how ashamed I felt. But Sandip Babu would have it that we must give up even our shame for the country. That may be so. But this is somehow different. I do not fear to die for the country, to kill for the country—that much __Shakti__ has been given me. But I cannot forget the shame of having taken money from you. There Sandip Babu is ahead of me. He has no reg
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