Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
1861 – 1941 ·
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
1861 – 1941 ·
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), born and died in Kolkata, was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter [3][9][11]. Of Bengali and Brahmin heritage, he worked across a wide range of disciplines including literature, poetry, short fiction, music composition, drama, essay writing, and painting [4][7]. He wrote under the pseudonym ভানুসিংহ and was known by the sobriquets Gurudeb, Kobiguru, and Bishwokobi, as well as the epithet "the Bard of Bengal" [10][12].
One of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance, Tagore reshaped Bengali literature and music through his embrace of Contextual Modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries [3][12]. He is particularly celebrated as the author of Gitanjali, a collection described as "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful," whose poetic songs were widely regarded as spiritual and lyrical in character [12]. In 1913 he became the first Asian, the first lyricist, and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature [3].
Tagore was a significant cultural force across Bengal and the broader Indian subcontinent, composing the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh [3]. He was also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society [12].
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