What is Contemporary Poetry and writing in the 21st Century
Rabindranath Tagore - The Poet from Bengal 1861 - 1941
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Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (
i/rəˈbindrəˈnɑːt ˈtɑːɡɔːr/; Bengali: [robind̪ro nat̪ʰ ʈʰakur]), also written Ravīndranātha Thākura] (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",[4] he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.[5] In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.[6] Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal
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