Rabindranath Tagore | Biography, Poetry & Death
Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, in Calcutta, and died on August 7, 1941) was a Bengali poet, philosopher, painter, composer, musician, and Brahmo Samaj supporter, 1913 received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first Asian Nobel Prize winner.From the Pirali Brahmin caste of Calcutta, Tagore composed his first poems at the age of eight. At sixteen, he published his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhanu Shingo ("the lion of the sun") and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877.Rabindranath Tagore did not receive formal schooling as a child, his life in Shilaidaha (where his grandfather built a country house), and his travels made Tagore a maverick and a pragmatist. He is one of the voices raised against the British Raj and he supports like Gandhi t...