"The Tagore Reader: Gitanjali, Songs of Kabîr, Thought Relics, Sadhana: The Realization of Life, Stray Birds, The Home and the World" - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604595353 ISBN 13: 9781604595352

Verlag: A & D Books, 2009

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"Collected here are six of Rabindranath Tagore's most important works including Gitanjali, Songs of Kabîr, Thought Relics, Sadhana: The Realization of Life, Stray Birds, and The Home and the World. Tagore was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. These land mark works all have a lyrical, rhythmic quality that makes them both accessible and beautiful."

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, novelist, playwright, composer, and philosopher whose work reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A leading figure of the Bengali Renaissance, Tagore wrote poetry, songs, essays, novels, and plays that combined deep spiritual reflection with lyrical beauty.In 1913 he became the first Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali, a collection of devotional poems that gained international acclaim. Tagore's influence extended far beyond literature-he was also an educator, social thinker, and cultural reformer whose ideas helped shape modern Indian intellectual life.Today Tagore remains one of the most celebrated literary figures of South Asia, admired for the universal humanism and spiritual depth that characterize his writing.

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• Verlag: A & D Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604595353
• ISBN 13: 9781604595352
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
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