Gitanjali

Gitanjali (Song Offerings) is the collection of devotional poems by Rabindranath Tagore for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first Asian writer to receive this honour. Tagore originally wrote the poems in Bengali; the English prose-poetry translation, made by Tagore himself with the encouragement of W.B. Yeats, captures their lyrical, spiritual intensity. The poems express a profound sense of the divine in nature and human experience, combining personal devotion with universal longing. Tagore was a poet, philosopher, composer, and polymath who transformed Bengali literature and Indian culture. Stream free, no account required.