The Best of Tagore

Edited and Introduced by Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Introduction by Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Series Everyman's Library Classics Series

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A generous one-volume selection of the best and most important works—poems, songs, stories, essays, novellas, and novels—by the prolific Bard of Bengal, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Rabindranath Tagore published his first volume of poetry as a teenager and went on to become a towering figure of Bengali and world literature, celebrated for his innovations in poetry, prose, drama, and music.

Tagore was remarkably productive over his long life; his complete works fill many volumes and include sixty collections of verse and more than two thousand songs, two of which have become the national anthems of India and of Bangladesh. His themes were as varied as his forms, including love, politics, humor, appreciation for the beauty of…

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter. In 1913 he became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.