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Rabindranath Tagore

  • Robindronath Thakur
  • Ravīndranātha Thākura
  • Рабиндранат Тагор
  • रबीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर
  • रवीन्द्रनाथ ठाकुर
  • Bhanusingha
  • রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
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Tagore, Rabindranath
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Date of birth
1861-05-07
Place of birth
Kolkata
Date of death
1941-08-07
Place of death
Kolkata

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Rabindranath Thakur ( ; pronounced [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; (anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, in 1913 Tagore became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by the sobriquets Gurudeb, Kobiguru, and Biswokobi.

A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. 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. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. 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.

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's "Jana Gana Mana" and Bangladesh's "Amar Shonar Bangla" .The Sri Lankan national anthem was also inspired by his work. His song "Banglar Mati Banglar Jol" has been adopted as the state anthem of West Bengal.

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Indian polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Auf des Funkens Spitzen: Weisheiten für das LebenHardcover978-3-466-20309-31989
Chokher Bali???
Verirrte Vögel: Aphorismen (miniature book)Hardcover?1960
Der zunehmende Mond: Mutter und Kind (miniature book)Hardcover?1958
Leuchtkäfer (miniature book)Hardcover?1959
Die Gabe des Liebenden (miniature book)Hardcover?1957
My ReminiscenceseBook?2021-03-28
GitanjalieBook?2017-06-25
Der König der dunklen KammerHardcover?1922
Das PostamtHardcover?1921
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Goodreads Author ID
36913
ISNI
0000 0001 0844 5619
0000 0001 2099 9155
LibraryThing Author
tagorerabindranath
MusicBrainz Artist ID
13274b60-181b-431a-b049-b48560c58e2a
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL1770A
VIAF
24608356
Wikidata ID
Q7241

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