![]() ![]() His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. ![]() Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs his legacy also endures in his founding of Visva-Bharati University. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. Ī Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudeb, Kobiguru, Biswokobi. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rabindranath Tagore FRAS ( / r ə ˈ b ɪ n d r ə n ɑː t t æ ˈ ɡ ɔːr/ ( listen) pronounced – 8 August 1941 ) was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. Rabindranath Tagore singing Tabu Mone Rekho ![]()
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