Rabindhranath Tagore 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, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Referred to as ‘the Bard of Bengal’, Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi.
Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ‘elegant prose and magical poetry’ remain largely unknown outside Bengal.
Poetry
1. Ama and Vinayaka
2. Baul Songs
3. Collected Poems
3.1. Boro-Budur
3.2. The Child
3.3. Freedom
3.4. From Hindi Songs of Jnanadas
3.5. Fulfilment
3.6. Krishnakali
3.7. The New Year
3.8. Raidas, the Sweeper
3.9. Santiniketan Song
3.10. Shesher Kobita
3.11. The Son of Man
3.12. This Evil Day
3.13. W.W. Pearson
4. Fruit-Gathering
5. The Fugitive
6. Gitanjali
7. Kacha and Devayani
8. Karna and Kunti
9. Lover's Gift
10. The Mother's Prayer
11. Other Poems
12. Somaka and Ritvik
13. Songs of Kabir
14. Stray Birds
15. Vaishnava Songs
Short Stories
1. A Feast for Rats
2. The Auspicious Vision
3. The Babus of Nayanjore
4. The Cabuliwallah
5. The Castaway
6. The Child's Return
7. The Devotee
8. The Editor
9. The Elder Sister
10. Emancipation
11. Exercise-book
12. Finally
13. The Fugitive Gold
14. The Gift of Vision
15. Giribala
16. Haimanti: Of Autumn
17. Holiday
18. The Home-Coming
19. The Hungry Stones
20. In the Night
21. The Kingdom of Cards
22. Living or Dead?
23. The Lost Jewels
24. Mashi
25. Master Mashai
26. My Fair Neighbour
27. My Lord, the Baby
28. Once there was a King
29. The Parrot's Training
30. The Patriot
31. The Postmaster
32. Raja and Rani
33. The Renunciation
34. The Riddle Solved
35. The River Stairs
36. Saved
37. The Skeleton
38. The Son of Rashmani
39. Subha
40. The Supreme Night
41. Unwanted
42. The Victory
43. Vision
44. We Crown Thee King
Novels
1. The Broken Ties (Nastanirh)
2. The Home and the World
3. The Religion of Man
Plays
1. Autumn-Festival
2. Chitra
3. The Cycle of Spring
4. The Gardener
5. The King and the Queen
6. The King of the Dark Chamber
7. Malini
8. The Post Office
9. Red Oleanders
10. Sacrifice
11. Sanyasi or the Ascetic
12. The Trial
13. The Waterfall
Essays
1. The Center of Indian Culture
2. Creative Unity
2.1. An Eastern University
2.2. An Indian Folk Religion
2.3. The Creative Ideal
2.4. East and West
2.5. The Modern Age
2.6. The Nation
2.7. The Poet's Religion
2.8. The Religion of the Forest
2.9. The Spirit of Freedom
2.10. Woman and Home
3. Nationalism
3.1. Nationalism in India
3.2. Nationalism in Japan
3.3. Nationalism in the West
3.4. The Sunset of the Century
4. Sadhana
4.1. The Problem of Evil
4.2. The Problem of Self
4.3. Realization in Action
4.4. Realization in Love
4.5. The Realization of Beauty
4.6. The Realization of the Infinite
4.7. The Relation of the Individual to the Universe
4.8. Soul Consciousness
5. The Spirit of Japan
Non-Fiction
1. Glimpses of Bengal
Introduction
1885
1887
1888
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
2. My Reminiscences
Part 1 – Part 8
Circa l’autore
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.