Gardeners Collection is a collection of poems written by Indian poet Tagore. It is a collection of English lyric poems about love and life with prose poems. * * * included 85 poems, first published in 19 13.
The first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tagore 186 1 was born in an enlightened landlord family in Kolkata, Bangladesh, India on May 7th. His father is a religious philosopher and social reformer. Tagore didn't receive much formal education, and his knowledge was mainly obtained by hiring teachers from his family for strict education and self-study. At that time, Bangladesh was the cultural center of India, and his home was filled with a strong literary atmosphere.
Tagore 1878 went to England to study law in September, and 1880 returned to China in February. 1882 published a collection of lyric poems, Twilight, and officially embarked on the road of literary creation. 1In the 1990s, following his father's orders, he left the city and went to the countryside to manage his ancestral land, where he lived for ten years. 19 13 won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the collection of religious lyric poems "Gitanjali".
19 19, the Amritsar tragedy occurred in India where British colonialists brutally suppressed the anti-British people. He angrily resigned from the knighthood conferred on him by the British government. 1924, he visited China at the invitation of Mr. Liang Qichao and expressed extremely friendly feelings to the people of China. 1930, he visited the Soviet Union and sincerely praised its achievements.
He also visited many other countries in Europe, Asia and the United States. In 1930s, imperialism, militarism and fascism became increasingly rampant. Tagore was angry and strongly condemned their atrocities. On August 7th, Tagore died in Calcutta.
Although Tagore was versatile, he wrote more than 50 poems, more than a dozen novellas, more than 90 short stories and more than 20 plays, as well as a considerable number of prose works and other essays, but he was essentially a poet. Judging from his creative practice, poetry is indeed the most devoted and handy art form in his life.
Although he successfully used various literary genres, only poetry was regarded as his lifelong career. His poems are not only the precious wealth of the Indian people, but also cherished by people all over the world and have a wide influence in the world.