Rabindranath Tagore: a biographical study

This is a short biographical study of the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1915, soon after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. It introduces English readers to his life, family background and his work as poet, playwright, songwriter and thinker, and places him within the culture of Bengal. It is an early appreciation written for a general audience of a writer then newly famous in the West.