Gitanjali (Song Offerings)
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Gitanjali (Song Offerings) is a collection of poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in India in 1910. Tagore later translated it into English prose poems, published in 1912 with an introduction by William Butler Yeats. The poems were modeled after medieval Indian lyrics of devotion, and Tagore also composed music for them. The primary subject is love, though some poems explore the internal conflict between spiritual desires and earthly temptations. Nature imagery is prevalent, and the overall mood is subdued. This collection was instrumental in Tagore receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.1
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