Desc: One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put us on the literary map of the world when his Gitanjali was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1913. A poet's he is a maker of not only modern Indian literature but also the modern Indian mind. Myriad minded, he was a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, painter and composer of songs. Gandhi called him the ‘Great Sentinel'. His worldwide acclaim as a social, political, religious and aesthetic thinker, innovator in education and a champion of the ‘One World' idea makes him a living presence. Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore was first published in 1936 in keeping with Tagore's wish for an anthology. The poems and plays included are translations from the Bengali. The collection also includes ten later poems which Tagore wrote after 1921 like ‘The Son Of Man' and ‘Boro-Budur'. |