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Gitanjali

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Gitanjali, Song Offerings
Close-up of a 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
Author
Original titleগীতাঞ্জলি
CountryBritish Raj
LanguageBengali, English
SubjectDevotion to God
GenrePoem
PublisherMacmillan and Company
Publication date
1910
Published in English
1912
Pages104

Gitanjali is a book of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore. There are 157 poems in the book. All the poems are in the Bengali language. It has been translated into many languages by many writers. Gitanjali is a book of song offerings. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature on November 14, 1913, for his book Gitanjali'. 'It also contains the special poem known as the"mind is without fear".