Geetanjali

Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature largely for the English translation Song Offerings. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. The original Bengali collection of 156/157 poems was published on August 14 1910. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English prose poems which are Tagores own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the Indian Society of London. The English Gitanjali became popular in the West and was widely translated. Tagores lyricism underwent a gradual process of evolution. His lyrics are authentic expression of his romantic imagination through which he looked a man nature and human life. On the other hand his early lyrics are characterized by romantic exuberance (extreme passion) and mainly deal with the various aspects of nature and beauty which have been the favorite themes of romantic poets.