Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, composer, playwright, and painter. He pioneered new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language in Bengali literature, helped introduce Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. Among his best-known works are the poetry collection Gitanjali (1910), the novels Gora (1910) and Ghare-Baire (1916), and the play Chitrangada (1892; Chitra).
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