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Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
Tagore, Sir Rabindranath. A Bengalee poet; born in 1861; died in 1941. He came into wide popular notice upon receiving the Nobel prize in 1913. He wrote upwards of seventy volumes of verse and prose in Bengalee, to many of which he gave an English dress. Among them are: ‘Gitanjali,’ ‘The Gardener,’ ‘The Crescent Moon,’ ‘Chitra,’ ‘The King of the Dark Chamber,’ ‘The Post Office.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).