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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher, writer and novelist (–)
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Rabindranath ThakurFRAS (Bengali:[roˈbindɾonatʰˈʈʰakuɾ]; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore; 7 May &#;– 7 August ) was an Indian Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali. In , Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by the sobriquetsGurudeb, Kobiguru, and Biswokobi.
A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some
Rabindranath Tagore
Selected Bibliography
Poetry
The Lover of God, trans. Tony K. Stewart and Chase Twichell (Copper Canyon Press, )
I Won’t Let You Go: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, )
Songs of Rabindranath Tagore: Translated in Rhyme (Shipra Publications, )
Rabindranath Tagore: Final Poems (George Braziller, )
Particles, Jottings, Sparks: The Collected Brief Poems of Rabindranath Tagore (HarperCollins, )
On the Shores of Eternity: Poems from Tagore on Death and Mortality (Harmony Books, )
Shesh Lekha: The Last Poems of Rabindranath Tagore, trans. by Pritish Nandy (Dialogue Publications, )
Lipika, trans. by A. Bose (Jaico Publishing House, )
Wings of Death: The Last Poems of Rabindranath Tagore, trans. by A. Bose (J. Murray, )
Ode to a Parted Love (Jaico Publishing House, )
The Herald of Spring: Poems from Mohua, trans. by A. Bose (J. Murray, )
Syamali, trans. by Sheila Chatterjee and Tagore (Visva-Bharati, )
A Flight of Swans: Poems from Balaka, trans. by Aurobindo Bose (J. Murray, )
The Child (Allen & Unwin, )
Fireflies (Macmillan, )
Rabindranath Tagore: Twenty-two Poems, trans. by Edward Thompson (E. Benn, )
The Curse at Farewell, trans. by Edward Thompson (Harrap, )
Poems from Tagore (Macmillan, )
The Fugitive (Macmillan, )
Lover’s Gift and Crossing (Macmillan, )
Stray Birds (Macmillan, )
Fruit-Gathering (Macmillan, )
The Crescent Moon: Child Poems (Macmillan, )
The Gardener (Macmillan, )
Gitanjali: Song Offerings (Macmillan, )
Prose Notable works of Rabindranath Tagore The works of Rabindranath Tagore consist of poems, novels, short stories, dramas, paintings, drawings, and music that Bengali poet and Brahmo philosopher Rabindranath Tagore created over his lifetime. Tagore's literary reputation is disproportionately influenced by regard for his poetry; however, he also wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. Of Tagore's prose, his short stories are perhaps most highly regarded; indeed, he is credited with originating the Bengali-language version of the genre. His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. However, such stories mostly borrow from deceptively simple subject matter — the lives of ordinary people and children. At sixteen, Tagore led his brother Jyotirindranath's adaptation of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. At twenty he wrote his first drama-opera: Valmiki Pratibha (The Genius of Valmiki). In it the panditValmiki overcomes his sins, is blessed by Saraswati, and compiles the Rāmāyana. Through it Tagore explores a wide range of dramatic styles and emotions, including usage of revamped kirtans and adaptation of traditional English and Irish folk melodies as drinking songs. Another play, written in , Dak Ghar (The Post Office), describes the child Amal defying his stuffy and puerile confines by ultimately "fall[ing] asleep", hinting his physical death. A story with borderless appeal—gleaning rave reviews in Europe—Dak Ghar dealt with death as, in Tagore's words, "spiritual freedom" from "the world of hoarded wealth and certified creeds". In the Nazi-besieged Warsaw Ghetto, Polish doctor-educator Janusz Korczak had orphans in his care stage The Post Office in July In The King of Children, biographer Betty Jean Lifton suspected that Korczak, agonising over whether one should determine when and how to die, was easing the children into Rabindranath Tagore ( – ) is best known as a poet, and in was the first non-European writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Highly prolific, Tagore was also a composer – he wrote the national anthems for both India and Bangladesh – as well as an educator, social reformer, philosopher and painter. In India, he is regarded as a national figure whose achievements are as important as those of the anti-colonial nationalist Mahatma Gandhi ( –). Rabindranath Tagore grew up in an intellectual and artistic family. His nephews Abanindranath and Gaganendranath were leaders of the new art movement in Bengal during the early 20th century, which later came to be known as the Bengal School. However, he was immune to the impact of the movement and produced works that were unique in his time and later served to inspire many modern Indian artists. Tagore took up painting relatively late in his career, when he was in his sixties. Nevertheless, he produced thousands of works and was the first Indian artist to exhibit across Europe, Russia and the United States. His painting style was very individual, characterised by simple bold forms and a rhythmic quality. His first paintings were highly imaginative works, usually focusing on animals or imaginary creatures, which are full of vitality and humour. Human figures are depicted either as individuals with expressive gestures or as groups in theatrical settings. In portraits produced during the s, he rendered the human face in a way reminiscent of a mask or persona. Tagore also produced landscape paintings, although these represent the smallest output among his works. Tagore's earliest visual work began with doodles that turned crossed-out words and lines into images that became expressive and sometimes grotesque forms. They were unplanned and shaped by accidents and intuitive decisions. Many of them represent animals described by Tagore as "a probable animal that had unaccountably missed its chance of existe
The Broken Nest, trans. by Mary M. Lago and Supriya Sen (University of Missouri Press, )
Binodini: A Novel, trans. by Krishna Kripalani (Sahitya Akademi, )
Four Chapters, trans. by Surendranath Tagore (Visva-Bharati, )
Farewell My Friend, trans. by Kripalani (New India Publishing Co., )
Two Sisters, trans. by Kripalani (Visva-Bharati, )
Broken Ties (Macmillan, )
Works of Rabindranath Tagore
Drama