Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta ,India into a wealthy Brahmin family.He was educated at home ,and although at seventeen ,he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies.Although Tagore wrote successfully in all genres ,he was first of all poet.Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi, Sonartori, Gitangoli,Gitimalya, and Balaka. For his Gitangoli ,he was awarded The Novel Prize in literature in 1913.He is the author of several volumes of short stories,a number of novels,among them Ghora ,Ghare Baire ,and Yoga.Besides these ,he wrote musical dramas ,dance dramas,essay of all types,travel diaries etc.He died on august 7,1944.