Gitanjali

Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Indian (and more specifically Bengali) literary history, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian-indeed, the first person outside Europe-to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely in recognition of his "spiritual offering of songs," Gitanjali.Tagore himself translated the poems from the original Bengali, taking many liberties in the process. His English translation is rightly recognized as a work distinct from the Bengali original,...