Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was an Indian polymath who reshaped Bengali literature, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A prolific writer, his literary works include poetry, novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. He was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, largely ...