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Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, educationist, social reformer, nationalist, business-manager and composer. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are among his best-known works. Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems. This volume became very famous in the West and was widely translated. The poetry is metaphysical talking about a union with the supreme being. The poems also speak of the union of two earthly lovers. This type of anthropomorphic depiction of celestial love is quite common in the literature of India since the 12th century.

Rabindranath Tagore wurde am 7. Mai 1861 in Kalkutta geboren und starb am 7. August 1941 ebendort. Er war ein bengalischer Dichter, Philosoph, Maler, Komponist und Musiker. 1913 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Literatur und war damit der erste asiatische Nobelpreisträger.