In his later years, besides poetry and stories, he turned his hand to song writing, musical dramas, dance dramas, essays, travelogues, and two autobiographies. In fact, his fame became so “luminous” that he embarked on paid lecture tours across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.įollowing the Nobel Prize, Tagore was knighted by the British Empire in 1915 but he resigned it as a result of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. For the next three decades, Rabindranath would churn out dozens of stories and poems, all quickly translated into European languages and popular worldwide. His first volume of translated poetry – 'Sandhya Sangit' – made him a sensation in the West. And he kept writing poetry, published in Bengal in limited editions beginning in 1882. There he managed the family’s extensive estates, began agitating for social reform, founded an experimental school, and briefly participated in the Indian nationalist movement. At 17 he was sent to England to complete his education (his father wanted him to be a barrister), but did not finish and instead returned to India. He was born in May 1861 as the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the religious sect Brahmo Samaj, which sought to revive the monistic basis of Hinduism as pronounced in the 'Upanishads.' Tagore was educated, as so many great authors were, at home at eight, he was writing religious poetry. The Gardener "If some wanderer, leaving home, come here to watch the night and with bowed head listen to the murmur of the darkness, who is there to whisper the secrets of life into his ears if I, shutting my doors, should try to free myself from mortal bonds?"Īctivate at a district or wonder with an available Great Work slot.Ī Bengali polymath, Rabindranath Tagore was a poet, painter, and novelist best known for being the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1913 AD for 'Gitanjali'). To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it." The Home and the World "I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. Rabindranath Tagore is an Atomic Era Great Writer in Civilization VI.
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