Stray Birds Author:Rabindranath Tagore Collected here are three hundred and twenty short poems by Rabindranath Tagore. They were written in Bengali before being translated into English by Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 ? 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centurie... more »s. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".« less