Gitanjali

Gitanjali
Author
Original titleগীতাঞ্জলি
LanguageBengali
SubjectDevotion to God
GenrePoem
Publication date
4 August 1910; 114 years ago (1910-08-04)
Publication placeBritish India
Published in English
1912; 112 years ago (1912)
Pages104

Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit.''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour.[1]

It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is "I am here to sing thee songs" (No. XV).[2]

  1. ^ "Gītāñjali | poetry by Tagore". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. ^ "Summary of Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore| Kaitholil.com". kaitholil.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Retrieved 2022-07-30.