Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus - Vol. 1
- Publisher : Rupa Publications
- Publishing year : May 2003
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9788129101754
- Imprint : Rupa
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
The Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus I brings together six of Tagore's acclaimed works. It includes Gitanjali, for which he w ...
The Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus I brings together six of Tagore's acclaimed works. It includes Gitanjali, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, a selection of 103 poems that took the world by storm, Post Office, a symbolic play rich in allegory, both simple and sophisticated, considered a masterpiece in world literature, Creative Unity (1922), hailed as the finest of Tagore's essays in English, revealing some of his fundamental tenets on art, aesthetics, life and religion, His Hungry Stones and Other Stories, a collection of some of Tagore's best-loved short stories, Gora, a landmark in the history of the Bengali novel, covering the broad canvas of the social, cultural, religious and political life of the nineteenth century urban middle-class in Bengal and My Boyhood Days, Tagore's poignant memoir of his childhood days.
Born in Kolkata, Shri Rabindranath Tagore started writing poetry from a tender age of eight. Later, as an eminent poet, short story writer, essayist, painter, novelist and playwright of worldwide fame, he changed the face of Bengali literature and music. Some of his other works are Malini, The Crescent Moon and Stray Birds.
Well known as a 'polymath,' he was also known as a renaissance poet. He had a progressive mindset and believed that the human mind has unlimited capabilities.
