Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there.

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Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West..

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Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet.