World Top Ten writer Tagore Biography : lonely garden birds (Set 2 Volumes)(Chinese Edition)

Tagore (1861-1941) was born to an Indian noble family, began to write poems at the age of 8, and published his first long poem Wild Flower at the age of 15. At the age of 25, he published his famous New Moon Gathers. Throughout his life, he wrote quite a lot and painted over 1,500 paintings. In 1913, he won Nobel Prize for Literature with his English collection of poems Gitanjali, becoming the first Oriental writer to win the honor. To support the movement for the independence of India, he was the first one to reject the honor and privileges endowed by the British sovereign. Indian people admired him and loved him, and called him poetic sage, the conscience of India and the soul of India. In 1924, 64-year-old Tagore came to visit China and contacted Chinese celebrities like Pu Yi, Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Gu Hongming accompanied by Xu Zhimo, and that has become a much-told story in the history of exchanges between China and India.