Collected here are six of Rabindranath Tagore_x0019_ s most important works including Gitanjali Songs of Kabir 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_x0019_ s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.