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Gitanjali

Also Known As Song Offerings
Poetry

Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, whose central theme is devotion and whose motto is I am here to sing thee songs. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European, the first Asian, and the only Indian to receive the honor. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Original Language
Bengali 1
Composed, From (Year)
1910 1
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Prose Poetry, Forms

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Source Gitanjali (Wikipedia)

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Lyric Poetry, Genres
Source Gitanjali (Wikipedia)
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1. Gitanjali (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    Gitanjali...is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
  • History section, first sentence
    The original Bengali collection was published on 4 August 1910.
  • Original language statement
    ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
  • Authored By: Rabindranath Tagore, Lead section, authorship
    Gitanjali...is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
  • In Genre: Lyric Poetry, Lead section, genre
    is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore
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