Personality - Paperback

by Tagore Rabindranath (Author)

Personality (1917) contains sixectures delivered in America during Tagore's second visit there. The essays are a structured exposition of his thoughts on different subjectsike 'Art', 'Reason for its Existence', 'Woman' and so on.

Author Biography

Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel Laureate for Literature (1913) as well as one of India's greatest poets and the composer of independent India's national anthem, as well as that of Bangladesh. He wrote successfully in all literary genres, but was first and foremost a poet, publishing more than 50 volumes of poetry. He was a Bengali writer who was born in Calcutta and later traveled around the world. He was knighted in 1915, but gave up his knighthood after the massacre of demonstrators in India in 1919.