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Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941 · India (Bengal) · Modern

The Bengali poet, composer and teacher Tagore became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, for Gitanjali. He wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh and founded a school and university at Santiniketan.

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Poems by Rabindranath Tagore

Public-domain poems, free to read and print.

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Are Rabindranath Tagore’s poems free to read?

Yes. Rabindranath Tagore’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 4 of them here or as a flip book. Full books are also free in the library.

What are Rabindranath Tagore’s best-known works?

Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1912), The Gardener (1913), The Crescent Moon (1913).

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