Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) belonged to the rich and noble family of the Tagores in Bengal. His grandfather, Dwarkanath Tagore, had been a co-worker of Raj Rammohan Roy; his father Devendranath Tagore, had been a pillar of the Brahmo Samaj Movement. Rabindranath Tagore’s mother expired when he was a young boy. More than being taught by school and teachers, he was taught by nature and circumstances.
His vision unfolds itself in Gitanjali, the work which won the Nobel Prize for literature for him in 1913. His multi-pronged genius produced lyrics, poetic plays, plays of ideas, social plays, novels, short stories, essays in criticism, philosophical essays, autobiographical fragments, letters, addresses and education dissertations. He was an actor, a producer, a musician, a painter, and an orator of extraordinary power. His contribution to Bengali literature is greater than that to English literature, but still, he holds a significant place in Indo-Anglian poetry.
Poems
- A Little Grain of Gold by Rabindranath Tagore
- Authorship by Rabindranath Tagore
- I Cannot Remember My Mother by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Flower-School by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Last Bargain by Rabindranath Tagore
- Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore
Short Stories
- Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore
- Living or Dead? by Rabindranath Tagore
- My Lord, The Baby by Rabindranath Tagore
- Once There Was a King by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Babus of Nayanjore by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Castaway by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Devotee by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Homecoming by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Kingdom of Cards by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Renunciation by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore
- Vision by Rabindranath Tagore
- We Crown Thee King by Rabindranath Tagore
Essays
- My Father by Rabindranath Tagore
- My School by Rabindranath Tagore
- Nationalism in India by Rabindranath Tagore