Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Poetry

Sir Rabindranath Tagore's most famous work is the Gitanjali, a book of poems that reached a wide audience after it was given a preface by William Butler Yeats. Tagore is one of the most famous and highly regarded of authors from modern India. The name is a pseudonym of Ravindranath Thakura, though the name has been transliterated with several different spellings. In addition to being a poet, he was also a playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher.

Tagore was born in 1861 and died in 1941. His was an upper-cast Hindu family, and he was raised on an estate in Calcutta. he was educated by private tutors, and he started writing poetry when he was eight years old. He made his first trip to England in 1878 to attend schools and universities in Brighton and London, and he read extensively in English and European literature at this time. He was placed in charge of the family estates in 1890, and each day he was brought into contact with local peasants and farmers whose suffering roused his sympathy. he became interested in the plight of India's poor, and he would remain a conscientious and vocal proponent of agricultural and educational reform for decades. In 1901 he founded a school at his retreat at Santiniketan and devoted this institution to the intellectual freedom of the individual. He modeled it after the tapovana, or "forest schools," of ancient India. The school later developed into an international university called Visva-Bharati, or

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ary reviewer called Tagore's poetry in English "a true flower of the autumn of romance." Tagore would not have understood that Romanticism was for him perennial. The irony is that he appeared during the autumn of romance in the West (Palmer 89). Palmer further finds that Tagore's popularity in the west derived less from the excellence of his poetry as poetry and more from his sentiments and his tone in certain passages. Tagore wrote some 3,000 poems and songs, an astonishing quantity. His reputation waned in the 1920s, but more recently it has revived as more of his works were published during the 1960s, an era that saw a greater turning to the East in America: Though Tagore was not read by american youth to the same degree that Hesse and others were, the second big period of Tagore's popularity was nevertheless part of a larger vogue for the spiritual meaning of the East (Palmer 95). Tagore's romanticism did not prevent him from addressing many of the issues of his own time, though he tended to keep poems on such subjects separate from his other works. as noted, Tagore wa sa champion of the individual, and in his fictional world he often presents the thinking, conscientious, lonely individual who is alienated from the

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