Song Offerings

Gitanjali
(Song Offerings)
Close-up of yellowed title page in an old book: "Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore. A collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali with an introduction by W. B. Yeats. Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, London, 1913."
Gitanjali title page
(with an introduction by W. B. Yeats)
Author
Original titleগীতাঞ্জলি
TranslatorRabindranath Tagore
LanguageBengali
SubjectDevotion to God
GenrePoem
PublisherIndia Society, Macmillan and Company
Publication date
1912
Publication placeBritish India
Pages104
TextGitanjali
(Song Offerings) at Wikisource
Tagore in 1912, when Gitanjali was being translated to English

Song Offerings (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি) is a volume of lyrics by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, rendered into English by the poet himself, for which he was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]

  1. ^ Presentation Speech by the Nobel Committee