This book presents an in-depth portrait of one of this century's most prolific and multi-faceted literary talents. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was an Indian poet, philosopher, songwriter, artist, and educational reformer. Born into a wealthy Bengali family, he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was for "Gitanjali," his collection of spiritual poems. Dutta and Robinson describe Tagore's Indian nationalism, his lifelong disagreements with Mahatma Gandhi, and his vision of East and West meeting in cooperation and mutual enlightenment. Tagore's writings reveal his love of nature and his view of Buddha as the world's greatest spiritual leader. Much of the book describes Tagore's travels all over the globe as a representative of mystical India. Hopefully, this fine biography will attract many new readers to Tagore's inspired poetry.