<Tr> <Th> Signature </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (/ rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr / (listen); Bengali: (robind̪ronat̪h ʈhakur)), also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861--7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature . Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal . He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal". </P> <P> A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight - year - old . At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long - lost classics . By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name . As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain . As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy also endures in the institution he founded, Visva - Bharati University . </P> <P> Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures . His novels, stories, songs, dance - dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal . Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair - Faced) and Ghare - Baire (The Home and the World) are his best - known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed--or panned--for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation . His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla . The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work . </P>

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