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The Hungry Stones

by Rabindranath Tagore

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Published
2014
Genre
Poetry
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages
32
Words
51216
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27618030-the-hungry-stones?ref=nav_sb_ss_3_18

Reading measures

Suggested reading age
ages 15–18
Ambleside year
Year 10 onwards · ages 15–18

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Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rabindranatha Thakura, (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent, being highly commemorated in India and Bangladesh, as well as in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan.

ISBN

ISBN-13
9781505754575
ISBN-10
1505754577

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CollectionIndiaPoetry