Brief
Biography:-
Rabindranath
Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), also known by
the sobriquet Gurudev, was
a Bengali mystic, Brahmo poet, 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.
Tagore wrote novels, short stories, songs,
dance-dramas, and essays on political and personal
topics. Gitanjali (Song
Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced),
and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the
World) are among his best-known works. His verse,
short stories, and novels, which often exhibited rhythmic lyricism,
colloquial language, meditative naturalism, and philosophical
contemplation, received worldwide acclaim. Tagore was also a
cultural reformer and polymath who modernised
Bengali art by rejecting strictures binding it to classical Indian
forms. Two songs from his canon are now the national anthems
of Bangladesh and
India: the
Amar Shonar Bangla
and the Jana Gana Mana
respectively.
Some of his
Creations:-
Poetry
*
মানসী Manasi 1890 (The Ideal
One)
* সোনার তরী
Sonar Tari
1894
(The Golden
Boat)
* গীতিমালা Gitimalya
1914 (Wreath of
Songs)
* বলাকা Balaka
1916 (The Flight of
Cranes)
Dramas
* বালমিকি প্রতিভা
Valmiki Pratibha
1881 (The Genius of
Valmiki)
* বিসর্জন Visarjan
1890 (The
Sacrifice)
* রাজা Raja
1910 (The King of the
Dark Chamber)
* ডাক ঘর Dak
Ghar 1912
(The Post
Office)
* অচলায়তন Achalayatan
1912
(The
Immovable)
* মুক্তধারা
Muktadhara
1922
(The
Waterfall)
* রক্তকরবি Raktakaravi
1926 (Red
Oleanders)
Literary
fiction
* গোরা Gora
1910 (Fair-Faced)
* যোগাযোগ Yogayog
1929 (Crosscurrents)
Autobiographies
* জীবনস্মৃতি
Jivansmriti
1912
(My
Reminiscences)
* ছেলেবেলা Chhelebela
1940 (My Boyhood
Days)
English
Translations:-
* Chitra (1914)
* Creative Unity (1922)
* Fireflies (1928)
* Fruit-Gathering (1916)
* Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912)
* Glimpses of Bengal (1991)
* I Won't Let you Go: Selected Poems (1991)
* My Boyhood Days (1943)
* My Reminiscences (1991)
* Nationalism (1991)
* The Crescent Moon (1913)
* The Fugitive (1921)
* The Gardener (1913)
* The Home and the World (1985)
* The Hungry Stones and other stories (1916)
* The Post Office (1996)
* Sadhana: The Realisation of Life (1913)
* Selected Letters (1997)
* Selected Poems (1994)
* Selected Short Stories (1991)
* Songs of Kabir (1915)
* Stray Birds (1916)
Works in English
* Thought Relics (1921)
