Tagore, Rabindranath
Tagore, Rabindranath ( 1861 – 1941 ),most eminent modern Bengali poet. He was also critic, essayist, composer, and author of short fiction innovative in Bengali literature. He is known outside India principally in English translation. Gitanjali: Song Offering ( 1912 ), his free verse re-creations of his Bengali poems modelled on medieval Indian devotional lyrics, won him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 , its first award to an Asian. Representative translations followed, of philosophical plays such as Chitra ( 1913 ) and The King of the Dark Chamber ( 1914 ), and of his novels The Home and the World ( 1919 ) and Gora ( 1924 ). His short fiction often comments powerfully and courageously on Indian national and social concerns, in the collections Hungry Stones ( 1916 ), Broken Ties ( 1925 ), and The Housewarming ( 1965 ), and in the novella The Broken Nest (...
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