Creative Unity - Tagore, Rabindranath

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Résumé :
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861-7 August 1941) was a Bengali short-story writer, poet, musician, composer, playwright, essayist and painter from India who was instrumental in transforming Indian art, especially Bengali literature and music, by introducing contextual modernism and new verses and prose. Both his prose and poetry were on varied topics and were considered to be magical and spiritual as visible in some of his noted works such as Gitanjali, Gora and Ghare-Baire. Referred to as the 'Bard of Bengal', his compositions were chosen as national anthems by India and Bangladesh while the Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work. He became the first non- European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913...

Biographie:
where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as the Bard of Bengal, Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudeb, Kobiguru, and Biswokobi.[a]A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bh?nusi?ha (Sun Lion), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism,[15] he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs...

Sommaire:
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Popularly known as Gurudev, Rabindranath Tagore was born into a rich zamindar (landowners) family on the 7th of May, 1861, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal. Tagore grew up to become a famous poet, writer, and composer. However, he also became a passionate advocate of humanism and internationalism- especially during the war years-and India's freedom struggle. Tagore's anxieties surrounding nationalism grew as it saw resurgence in the politics of the time, following the First World War. Tagore took a critical stance at the rise of nationalism in the East and West during the 20th century. This is evident in his university lectures as well as essays, such as The Nation and East and West, in which he visited the themes of nation, nationalism, and violence. Between 1878 and 1932, Tagore travelled to more than 30 countries, including the United States of America, Japan, United Kingdom, Java, and the Soviet Union. His commitment to revamping Indian education can be seen with the founding of Shantiniketan in 1863, and eventually Visva-Bharati University in 1921. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913. Although Tagore mostly wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and essays, he also wrote non-fiction, primarily centred on issues of history and spirituality....