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Rediscovering Rabindranath Tagore – and his plays

In 1933, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal". At age sixty, Tagore took up drawing and painting; successful exhibitions of his many works — which made a debut appearance in Paris. Tagore's literary reputation is disproportionately influenced very much by regard for his poetry; however, he also wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, | Click Here...