Rabindranadha Tagor‚ Gitanjali (Gitanjoli) is a collection of 103 English poems‚ largely translations‚ by the Bengali poet Rabindranadha Tagore This volume became very famous in the West‚ and was widely translated. Gitanjali (Gitanjoli) is also the title of an earlier Bengali volume (1910) of mostly devotional songs. The word gitanjoli is a composed from "git"‚ song‚ and "anjoli"‚ offering‚ and thus means - "An offering of songs"; but the word for offering‚ anjoli‚ has a strong devotional connotation
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From my LP class days‚ I have heard of Tagore. The loud speaker from the local church used to play songs took from this great book in the early morning. I used to tell the story of ‘golden grain of corn’. Recently‚ I was reading Kahlil Gibran and saw that his books are ‘inspired’ by Tagore. I thought‚ ‘enough is enough…here I am determined to read ‘Gitanjali’ first‚ before reading its further ‘inspirations’. And the travel was beautiful! Tagore was born in a very Rich family but he was a child
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Rabindranath Tagore‚ popularly known as “the Shelley of Bengal.” Tagore was a Ben¬gali‚ but he belongs to the whole world‚ not to speak of India. He was a universalistic and a humanist through and through. Tagore was born on May 6‚ 1861 in Calcutta. He came from a rich family of land¬lords. But he had the milk of human kind-ness for the poor and the downtrodden. Tagore was not sent to any school‚ he was taught at home. He was a highly preco¬cious child. As such‚ he was capable of learning more
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* Tagore was born on 7 May 1861. At some time towards the end of the seventeenthcentury‚ his forefathers had migrated from their native lands to Govindpur‚ one of the three villageswhich later came to constitute Calcutta. In the course of time‚ the family came to acquire propertyand considerable business interests through the pursuit of commercial and banking activities. Theyhad particularly benefited from the growing power of the British East India Company.Rabindranath’s grandfather‚ Dwarkanath
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Aatmya S. Talati Prof. Mary Helen O’Connor ENGL 2112 Rabindranath Tagore The first Asian Nobel Prize winner for Literature‚ a cultural hero‚ and an international figure‚ Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 in Calcutta‚ India. Tagore speaks to an optimistic assortment of the ripened Indian custom and the new European awareness. Globally‚ Gitanjali is Tagore ’s best-known accumulation of poetry and Tagore was granted the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his book "Gitanjali"‚ which contains the essence
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Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর ‚ pronounced [roːbin̪d̪rɔnaːtʰə ʈhaːkurə]; Hindi: रबिन्द्रनाथ ठाकुरα[›]β[›]; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚γ[›] sobriquet Gurudev‚δ[›] was a Bengali poet‚ novelist‚ musician‚ painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali with its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚[1] he was the first non-European and the only Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.[2] His poetry in translation
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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 9‚ 1861 in an affluent family in the Jorasanko Mansion in Kolkata. His parents were Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta‚ India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law‚ he returned to India‚ and instead pursued a career as a writer‚ playwright‚ songwriter‚ poet‚ philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success
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Rabindranath Tagore is a prolific writer‚ and he tries his hand successfully at almost all the major forms of literature. Born in an educated Bengali family he receives his education primarily at home and close to natural setting. He paces Bengali literature to its highest scale by his versatile genius. As Edward Thomas paints out‚ even Victor Hugo couldn’t have claimed a wider range of form and mood than is evinced by Tagore who writes plays of every kind – tragic‚ symbolic‚ comic‚ and farcical
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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore also known as Gurudev‚ was a renowned Bengali poet‚ playwright‚ novelist‚ visual artist‚ composer‚ educationist‚ social reformer‚ nationalist and business-manager. He contributed a lot to Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the first Asian Nobel Laureate who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore wrote several novels‚ short stories‚ songs‚ dance-dramas
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