Gitanjali

Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour.

This article is about the collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. For other uses, see Geetanjali (disambiguation).
Gitanjali
Author
  • Rabindranath Tagore
Original titleগীতাঞ্জলি
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
SubjectDevotion to God
GenrePoem
Publication date
4 August 1910 (1910-08-04)
Published in English
1912 (1912)
Pages104

It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is "I am here to sing thee songs" (No. XV).

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