Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) wasa world-renowned Indianpoet, philosopher,educator, and also a short-story writer, songcomposer, playwright, essayist and painter. He was highlyinfluential in reshaping and modernizingIndian literature and musicin the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as inintroducingthe best of lndian culture to the West. Hispoemspenetrate a deep insight towards religion and philosophy.Gitanjali, The Crescent Moon and Stray Birds are his most famouscollections of poems. Tagore became the first non-European to winthe Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.