Gitanjali Song Offerings Author:Rabindranath Tagore, W. B. Yeats 1913. A Collection of Prose Translations made by the author from the original Bengali. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for this book of prose. Tagore is an artist of rare lyrical powers, who understands the human soul. Tagore's poems are devotions, mystical, sublimated ecstasy. They are the thoughts of a seer, the perfe... more »ct union of beauty and truth in poetry.« less