Collected here are six of Rabindranath Tagore's most important works including Gitanjali, Songs of Kab r, Thought Relics, Sadhana: The Realization of Life, Stray Birds, and The Home and the World. Tagore was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. These land mark works all have a lyrical, rhythmic quality that makes them both accessible and beautiful.