Rabindranath Tagore as a philosophical voyager - A critical study of Gitanjali

<p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>A multi-faceted creative personality Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest stalwarts of both English and Bengali literatures. He created a Renaissance in India where people were awakened by the great corpus of creative work produced during the country's struggle for independence from the British. Tagore was undoubtedly a champion of this literary protest. He produced masterpieces in Bengali literature and later translated them into English. Gitanjali his masterpiece collection of poems with a foreword by William Butler Yeats is renowned for its rhythmic optimistic and lyrical nature. It won Tagore the Nobel Prize for Literature the first awarded to an Asian writer and a knighthood. In this landmark study noted Indian scholar P. V. Laxmiprasad offers the most comprehensive critical study of Tagore's work to date.</span></p>