News at Eleven: It's hard to think of any other writer anywhere

who has aroused this level of fervour, but [Rabindranath] Tagore might still be seen as a purely local phenomenon, a curiosity and irrelevance to the world beyond Bengal. Except that he wasn't. In 1913 he won the Nobel prize for literature, the first non-European to win a Nobel. The story is well known. In 1912 he sailed from India to England with a collection of English translations--the 100 or so poems that became the anthology Gitanjali, or "song offerings". He lost the manuscript on the London tube. Famously, it was found in a left luggage office. Then--decisively--WB Yeats met Tagore, read his poems and became his passionate advocate (while pencilling in suggestions for improvements).

from The Guardian: Rabindranath Tagore was a global phenomenon, so why is he neglected?
then The Daily Star: Rabindranath: He belonged to the world
then Bangkok Post: Rediscovered photos show Tagore in new light
then Indian Weekender: Tagore remembered on 150th anniversary

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