Songs of Kabir

by Rabindranath Tagore

Overview

Beautiful poetry of the famous 15th century Indian saint expressing the union of the Self and the Beloved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783986774547
Publisher:	Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Publication date:	11/14/2021
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	702 KB

About the Author

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimedor pannedfor their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.