 Over a period of sixty years, Tagore's massive literary output included:
-Over 1000 poems
-Over 24 plays/play-lets
-8 volumes of short stories
-8 novels
-Over 2000 songs(lyrics and music)-Large number of essays
He was one of the twentieth century's leading literary icons. The verbal and metrical beauty that Tagore gave to Bengali poetry is comparable to that of the English poets Shelly, Keats, Tennyson and Swinburn.
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“I seek notes for my songs simple and full
as these, fresh and flowering with life,
old as the word and known to all.
But my strings are newly strung and they
bristle with sharp newness as with
spears,”
(Kheya) |
