Works of Rabindranath Tagore

A. Tagore first published poem was called 'Abhilaash' and was published anonymously.

B. India's first Nobel laureate, Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature.

C. Tagore's literary reputation is influenced very much by regard for his poetry; however, he also wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs.

Works : Gitanjali

Internationally, Gitanjali is Tagore's best-known collection of poetry. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his book 'Gitanjali.

Many of the verses in Gitanjali are beautiful prayers written after a gut-wrenchingly painful period in Rabindranath Tagore’s life, during which he lost his father, wife, daughter and a son in quick succession. His unfathomable pain and unshaken devotion to God are captured in the moving prose-verses of Gitanjali, which Tagore dedicated as “Song Offerings”.