BIOGRAPHY OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE

R abindranath Tagore was born in calcutta, india into a wealthy Brahmin family. after a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law , he returned to India, and instead pursued a career as a writer, playewright, songwriter, poet , philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of hs life he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India where he was born and raised with his many stories, songs, and plays . His short stories were published monthly in friend's magazine and he even played the lead role in a few of the public performance of his plays. This all suddenly changed in 1912. he then returned to England for the first time since is failed attempt at law school as a teenager. Now a man of 51, he was accompanied by his son . On the way over to England he began translating , for the first time , his latest selection of poems , Gitanjali , into English. Almost all of his work prior to that time had been written in his native tongue of Bengali. He decided...