After his return from Japan, Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate, brought out English versions of his own Bengali originals, a book not widely known in the West, Stray Birds (1916). These consist of poetic aphorisms, influenced by haiku, ranging in mood from joyous to contemplative, playful and innocent, profound and...More
Rabindranath Tagore, born as Robindronath Thakur, (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath- poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter. He 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 verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial.
Rabindranath Tagore, born as Robindronath Thakur, (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath- poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter. He 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 verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial.
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After his return from Japan, Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate, brought out English versions of his own Bengali originals, a book not widely known in the West, Stray Birds (1916). These consist of poetic aphorisms, influenced by haiku, ranging in mood from joyous to contemplative, playful and innocent, profound and ecstatic.
"Stray Birds" contains ideas on nature, man, and his environment as may be entertained by a man sitting by a window where the stray birds of summer sing and fly away. These short, sometimes merely one-line poems are often just an image or the distillation of a thought, but they stay in the mind and do not fly away as easily as the birds.
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