Gitanjali

Composed of 103 poems in English, widely translated by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This book was mostly popular in the West, and was largely interpreted into other dialects. In England a smaller volume was printed in 1913, with an exciting preface by W. B. Yeats.Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was a Bengali polymath who remolded Bengali literature and music, apart from Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Writer of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore's poetic songs were seen as devotional and mercurial; whereas, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" continue to be widely unpopular outside Bengal. He is at times known as "the Bardof Bengal".A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with genealogical nobility roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry when he was 8 years old. At 16 years old, he produced verses under the pen name Bhānusiṃha or Sun Lion, which were held upon by literary powers as forgotten classics. He commenced to his first short tales and plays, produced using his actual name. As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and keen anti-nationalist, he deplored the British Raj and supported liberation from Britain. As a proponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he progressed a massive doctrine that contained paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of writings, and around two thousand songs; his legacy also undergoes in the establishment he formed, Visva-Bharati University.Tagore rationalized Bengali art by repulsing inflexible historical methods and resisting linguistic criticisms. His narratives, tales, songs, dance-plays, and essays spoke to matters authoritative and personal.