Male : Poet, Novelist, Philosopher & Dramatist. Born into a family of religious and social reformers, musicians & artists. Married Mrinalinidebi in 1884. Tried to blend east and west in his works. Nobel Prize 1913 (first Asian recipient). Came to England 1878. Composed over 200 songs. Exhibited his paintings worldwide. Published over 60 works. Resigned his knighthood in 1919 in protest against British policies in the Punjab

Nationality : Indian Place of Birth : Calcutta

Date of Birth : 1861 Date of Death : 1941 Age : 80

Education : Educated privately & University College, London

1890-1900
Manasi (1890)
Chitra : A Play in One Act (1895) (1913 The India Society, London - 500)
Sonar Tari (1895)

1901-1915
Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1909)
The King of the Dark Chamber (1910) (1914)
The Post Office (1912) (1914 Cuala Press, Dundrum - 400) - Play
The Crescent Moon : Child Poems (1913 Macmillan)
Sadhana : The Realisation of Life (1913)
The Gardener : Poems (1913 Macmillan)
Glimpses of Bengal Life (1913) - ss
The Post Office (1914 Cuala Press) - intro by W B Yeats. 400
Citra (1914) - Play
The King and the Dark Chamber (1914) - Play

1916-1920
The Home and the World (1916)
Fruit Gathering (1916 Macmillan)
The Stone and Other Stories (1916)
Stray Birds : Aphorisms (1916 Macmillan NY)
Nationalism (1917 Macmillan)
The Cycle of Spring (1917) - Play
Sacrifice and Other Plays (1917)
Letters (1917)
Personality : Lectures Delivered in America (1917)
My Reminiscences (1917) - auto
Lover's Gift and Crossing (1918)
Mashi and Other Stories (1918)
The Fugitive (1918) - Play
The Parrot's Training (1918)
Gora (1918) (1924)
The Home and the World (1919)
[Filmed in 1984]
The Mother's Prayer (1919) - Play
Autumn Festival (1920) - Play

1921-1925
The Wreck (1921)
Great India : Lectures (1921)
Thought Relics (1921)
Creative Unity (1922)
Poems (1922)
The Visvabharati (1923) - with C F Andrews
The Curse at Farewell (1924)
Red Oleander (1924)
Letters from Abroad (1924)
Broken Ties & Other Stories (1925)
Talks in China (1925)

1926-1930
Fireflies (1928)
Fifteen Poems (1928)
Lectures and Addresses (1928)
City and Village (1928)
Sheaves : Poems and Songs (1929)

1931-1940
The Child (1931)
The Religion of Man (1931) (1932)
The Golden Boat (1932)
Collected Poems and Plays (1936)
Man : Lectures (1937)
My Boyhood Days (1940)

1941-1950
Eighty Years, and Selections (1941)
Poems (1942)
Two Sisters (1943)
Farewell My friend, with The Garden (1946)
Caramel Doll (1946 Kutub, Bombay)
Four Chapters (1950)
Three Plays (1950)

1951-1960
More Stories from Tagore (1951)
A Tagore Testament (1953)
A Flight of Swans (1955)
Syamali (1955)
The Herald of Spring (1957)
Our Universe (1958)
Binodini (1959)
The Runaway & Other Stories (1959)
Wings of Death : The Last Poems (1960)
Letters from Russia (1960)

1961 Onwards
Devouring Love (1961)
Tagore : Pioneer in Education (1961)
A Visit to Japan (1961)
A Tagore Reader (1961) - Edited by Amiya Chakravarty
Towards Universal Man (1961 Asia House Publishing 30/-)
The Diary of a Westward Voyage (1962 Asia Publishing House 25/-)
Our Rural Reconstruction (1962)
The Cooperative Principle (1963)
Caturanga (1963)
Boundless Sky (1964)
The Housewarming and Other Selected Writings (1965)
A Bunch of Poems (1966)
One Hundred and One (1967)
Lipika (1969)
The Broken Nest (1971)
Last Poems (1973)
Later Poems (1974)

READING
Mohinimohana Bhattarcharya : Tagore - Poet & Thinker (1961)
G D Khanolkar : The Lute and the Plough - A Life of Tagore (1963)
Dattatuaya Muley : Ravindranath's Poetry (1964)
Sati Ghosh : Rabindranath (1966)
Birenda C Chakravorty : Tagore - His Mind and Art (1971)
Krishna Dutta & Andrew Robinson : Rabindranath Tagore - The Myriad-Minded Man
(1995 Bloomsbury £25)