The poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his anthology Gitanjali, published in London in 1913. It is part of UNESCO's collection of representative works. Its main theme is devotion and its motto is "I am here to sing your songs". The original collection of Bengali poems 156/157 was published on August 14, 1910. The English Gitanjali or Song Offering / Singing Angel is a collection of 103 English prose poems, English translations of Tagore's own Bengali poems, and the first to be published. November 1912 by the India Society in London. It contains 53 translations of poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems from his other works. Translations are often revolutionary, ignoring or replacing large parts of the poem and combining two different verses in one context (song 95, which includes the offering songs 89 and 90).
This Question is Also Available in:
हिन्दी