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Rabindranath Tagore
1861 AD — 1941 AD
Bengali writer, composer and educator whose work crosses poetry and public life. The linked Gitanjali offers his own English prose translations; supplied archive attributions retain their uncertainty.
Author and source reference ↗Life and writing
Rabindranath Tagore lived from 1861 to 1941. He wrote poetry, fiction and plays, composed music and worked in education. His school at Santiniketan and the later Visva-Bharati institution put educational ideas into practice. This wider activity offers a useful frame for reading his work: a brief lyrical passage belongs to a writer whose interests also reached learning, community and cultural exchange.
Visva-Bharati — Rabindranath Tagore, the founder ↗ Founder biography: lifetime, literary forms, music and educational institutions
Gitanjali: Song Offerings presents English prose translations made by Tagore from Bengali, with a separate introduction by W. B. Yeats. Read its numbered poems as complete units and distinguish the translator-author’s voice from the introduction. The edition is a reading destination for this writer; its presence does not establish that the separately supplied quotations in this archive occur in Gitanjali or use his own English wording.
Project Gutenberg — Gitanjali, PG 7164 ↗ PG7164 title page, author-made prose translations and separate introduction; original reading guidance
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Begin with a complete numbered poem in Gitanjali, then follow its images through the surrounding lines. Ask who speaks, who is addressed and how a concrete image changes an abstract idea. The selected archive passages carry contributor-supplied attributions that have not been independently authenticated here; they are editorial starting points, not verified excerpts from this edition. The profile’s life years do not date those entries: their undated status and original wording remain unchanged.
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Profile sources and editorial status
Original agent-assisted editorial profile, checked 2026-10-05. No human review is recorded. Life dates are recorded to the year; they do not date individual quotations.
- Visva-Bharati — Rabindranath Tagore, the founder ↗
Limited original factual paraphrase for life years, writing, music and educational work; no university article text or images reproduced. Reference checked 2026-10-05.
- Project Gutenberg — Gitanjali, PG 7164 ↗
Linked title page supports author-made Bengali-to-English prose translations and Yeats introduction. External US-specific reading edition; no new book text imported. Reference checked 2026-10-05.