In a collection of over 100 poems, Rabindranath Tagore explores a variety of topics, from the pastoral to the divine. The verses are considered songs of devotion. Originally translated into English by W. B. Yeats in 1912, the pieces collected in “Gitanjali” earned Tagore the first Nobel Prize for Literature ever awarded to a non-European.
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Born in 1861 to an influential Bengali family, Rabindranath Tagore achieved fame as a novelist, playwright, poet, painter, lecturer, politician, and composer. In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the first non-European to achieve such an honor. He died in 1941.
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- PublisherMacmillan India
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0333935756
- ISBN 13 9780333935750
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages106
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