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(1861-1941)
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Indian Author
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Modern India's greatest poet and the composer of India's national anthem
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Tagore came into close contact, both in India and abroad,
with practically all the eminent thinkers, intellectuals,
and artists of his day - men like Albert Einstein, Henri
Bergson,Thomas Mann, Romain Rolland,
H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Robert Frost.
His works comprise about 50 dramas, 100 books
of verse (much of which he set to music), 40 novels and
books of short fiction, and philosophical essays.
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Gitanjali was published in 1912.
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1913 Nobel Laureate in Literature for Gitanjali
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"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful
verse, by which, with comsummate skill, he has made his
poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part
of the literature of the West. "
According to Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ,
Transcendentalism is "a philosophy that asserts the primacy
of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and
empirical."
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