The Principles of Rabindranath Tagore - Hardcover

Hegde, Parameshwar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9380318219 ISBN 13: 9789380318219

Publisher: Neha Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Rabindranath Tagore, sobriquet Gurudev, was an Indian Bengali polymath. He was a popular poet, novelist, musician, and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As author of Gitanjali and its profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse , and as the first Asian to win the Novel Prize in Literature, Tagore was perhaps the most widely regarded Indian literary figure of all time. He was a mesmerizing representative of the Indian culture whose influence and popularity internationally perhaps could only be compared to that to Gandhi, whom Tagore named 'Mahatma' out of his deep admiration for him. A Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, Tagore was already writing poems at age eight. At age sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho ( Sun Lion ) and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. Tagore denounced the British Raj and supported independence. His efforts endure in his vast canon and in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to political and personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and contemplation. Tagore was perhaps the only literature who penned anthems of two countries: India and Bangladesh: Jana Gana Mana and Amar Shonar Bangla.

Edition details

• Publisher: Neha Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9380318219
• ISBN 13: 9789380318219
• Binding: Hardcover