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    Gitanjali: Including "Fruit-Gathering"
    Gitanjali: Including "Fruit-Gathering"
    Gitanjali: Including "Fruit-Gathering"
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    Gitanjali: Including "Fruit-Gathering"

    By Rabindranath Tagore

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    "Gitanjali" is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems. These poems highlight the many realizations author had under the crimson sky, casting his forlorn eye and pensive heart. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for this book. "Fruit-Gathering" is a collection of poems and a sequel to Gitanjali. In it, Tagore meditates simply and directly on the interplay between the individual and the surroundings. "My Reminiscences" is an autobiography of the great Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateNov 13, 2022
    ISBN8596547402886
    Gitanjali: Including "Fruit-Gathering"
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    Rabindranath Tagore

    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was an Indian poet, composer, philosopher, and painter from Bengal. Born to a prominent Brahmo Samaj family, Tagore was raised mostly by servants following his mother’s untimely death. His father, a leading philosopher and reformer, hosted countless artists and intellectuals at the family mansion in Calcutta, introducing his children to poets, philosophers, and musicians from a young age. Tagore avoided conventional education, instead reading voraciously and studying astronomy, science, Sanskrit, and classical Indian poetry. As a teenager, he began publishing poems and short stories in Bengali and Maithili. Following his father’s wish for him to become a barrister, Tagore read law for a brief period at University College London, where he soon turned to studying the works of Shakespeare and Thomas Browne. In 1883, Tagore returned to India to marry and manage his ancestral estates. During this time, Tagore published his Manasi (1890) poems and met the folk poet Gagan Harkara, with whom he would work to compose popular songs. In 1901, having written countless poems, plays, and short stories, Tagore founded an ashram, but his work as a spiritual leader was tragically disrupted by the deaths of his wife and two of their children, followed by his father’s death in 1905. In 1913, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first lyricist and non-European to be awarded the distinction. Over the next several decades, Tagore wrote his influential novel The Home and the World (1916), toured dozens of countries, and advocated on behalf of Dalits and other oppressed peoples.

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